Faster simulation methods for the nonstationary random vibrations of nonlinear MDOF systems

Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 63-72

  Askar, A ^a   Koyluoglu H U ^b   Nielsen, S R K ^c   Çakmak, A Ş ^b  

^a KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); EQUATIONS OF MOTION; INTEGRATION; LINEARIZATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS); VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

ERMARK ALLEN ALGORITHM; GAUSSIAN WHITE NOISE EXCITATION; JOINT PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; MULTI DEGREE OF FREEDOM STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS; NONSTATIONARY RANDOM VIBRATIONS; RUIZ PENZIEN BROKEN LINE PROCESS; RUNGE KUTTA METHOD;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 0030130257     PISSN: 02668920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0266-8920(95)00007-0     Document Type: Article

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