Structural reliability methods for seismic safety assessment: A review

Engineering Structures

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 412-424

  Der Kiureghian, A ^a  

^a Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake engineering; Structural reliability

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 0030468971     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0141-0296(95)00005-4     Document Type: Article

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