Role of non-destructive evaluation in time-dependent reliability analysis

Structural Safety

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 325-339

  Zheng, Ruohua ^a   Ellingwood, Bruce R ^b  

^a MOBIL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^b Whiting School of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Fabrication; Fatigue; Inspection; Measurement; Nondestructive evaluation; Probability; Reliability; Structural engineering

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELIABILITY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL LOADS; CYCLIC LOADS; ULTRASONIC TESTING;

TIME-DEPENDENT RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH;

STEEL STRUCTURES;

FATIGUE; NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032216476     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4730(98)00021-6     Document Type: Article

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