A strategy for reliability-based optimization

Engineering Structures

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 276-282

  Pu, Y ^a   Das, P K ^a   Faulkner, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Reliability based optimization; SWATH; System reliability

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HULLS (SHIP); OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY THEORY; STRUCTURAL FRAMES;

RELIABILITY BASED OPTIMIZATION; SMALL WATER PLANE TWIN HULLS (SWATH);

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 0031096052     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-0296(96)00088-0     Document Type: Article

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