Ductile structural system reliability analysis using adaptive importance sampling

Structural Safety

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 137-154

  Dey, Animesh ^a   Mahadevan, Sankaran ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Branch and bound method; Ductile behavior; Failure probability; Failure sequence; Frames; Importance sampling; Random variables; Simulation; Structural reliability; System reliability

Indexed keywords

DUCTILITY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES;

FAILURE PROBABILITY; IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; SYSTEM RELIABILITY;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031675799     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4730(97)00033-7     Document Type: Article

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