Three versions of the finite element method based on concepts of either stochasticity, fuzziness, or anti-optimization

Applied Mechanics Reviews

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 209-218

  Elishakoff, Isaac ^a  

^a Florida Atlantic Univ   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS);

ANTIOPTIMIZATION; CONVEX MODELLING; RANDOM VIBRATIONS; UNCERTAINTY;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0032023748     PISSN: 00036900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3098998     Document Type: Article

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