A simple approach to multinormal integration with applications to the system reliability computation

Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 89-105

  Pandey, M D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo simulation; Multinormal distribution; Numerical integration; Parallel and series systems; Probability theory; Structural reliability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRATION; LINEARIZATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY;

MULTINORMAL INTEGRATION; STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031654265     PISSN: 10286608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02630259808970232     Document Type: Article

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