Reliability based structural analysis and optimization in X window environment

Computers and Structures

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-10

  Rajagopalan, H S ^a   Grandhi, R V ^a  

^a Wright State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CALCULATIONS; CODES (STANDARDS); COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; SAFETY FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

OPEN SOFTWARE FOUNDATION MOTIF TOOL KIT; SAFETY INDEX CALCULATION CODE; X WINDOW ENVIRONMENT;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030567740     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0045-7949(95)00360-6     Document Type: Article

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