Safety index calculation using intervening variables for structural reliability analysis

Computers and Structures

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1139-1148

  Wang, Liping ^a   Grandhi, R V ^a  

^a Wright State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CALCULATIONS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELIABILITY THEORY; SAFETY FACTOR;

SAFETY INDEX; STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030174728     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0045-7949(96)00291-X     Document Type: Article

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