Directional methods for structural reliability analysis

Structural Safety

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 233-249

  Nie, Jinsuo ^a   Ellingwood, Bruce R ^a  

^a Whiting School of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTEGRATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY;

DIRECTIONAL SAMPLING;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033666117     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4730(00)00014-X     Document Type: Article

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