A general procedure for first/second-order reliability method (FORM/SORM)

Structural Safety

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 95-112

  Zhao, Yan Gang ^a   Ono, Tetsuro ^a  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Failure probability; FORM SORM; Hessian matrix; IFFT; Limit state surface; Performance function; Point fitting approximation; Range of applicability of FORM SORM; Reliability index

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY THEORY;

FAILURE PROBABILITY; FIRST ORDER RELIABILITY METHOD; HESSIAN MATRIX; LIMIT STATE SURFACE; PERFORMANCE FUNCTION; POINT FITTING APPROXIMATION; RELIABILITY INDEX; SECOND ORDER RELIABILITY METHOD; STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

MATHEMATICAL METHOD; RELIABILITY; STRUCTURAL PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0032874461     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4730(99)00008-9     Document Type: Article

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