Concept of random sets as applied to the design of structures and analysis of expert opinions for aircraft crash

Chaos, solitons and fractals

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1855-1868

  Tonon, F ^a   Bernardini, A ^b   Elishakoff, I ^c  

^a University of Padova ^*  (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c Florida Atlantic Univ   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; CRASHWORTHINESS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RELIABILITY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

AIRCRAFT CRASH; RANDOM SETS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 0033229522     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-0779(98)00153-2     Document Type: Article

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