Directional importance sampling for ill-proportioned spaces

Structural Safety

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-22

  Moarefzadeh, M R ^a   Melchers, R E ^b  

^a IMAM HOSSEIN UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Correlation; Directional sampling; Failure; Importance sampling; Load space; Probability

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SAFETY FACTOR; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

DIRECTIONAL SAMPLING; IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; LOAD SPACE;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 0032677773     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4730(98)00023-X     Document Type: Article

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