Optimization problem solution in reliability analysis of reinforced concrete structures

Computers and Structures

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 351-355

  Val, D ^a   Bljuger, F ^a   Yankelevsky, D ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FUNCTIONS; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; REINFORCED CONCRETE; RELIABILITY THEORY; STRESSES; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL FRAMES;

FIRST OR SECOND ORDER RELIABILITY METHODS; GEOMETRIC NONLINEARITY; LIMIT STATE FUNCTION; MATERIAL NONLINEARITY; REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL MODEL; TWO DIMENSIONAL LAYERED BEAM FINITE ELEMENT;

CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0030567803     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0045-7949(95)00390-8     Document Type: Article

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