Improved response surface method and its application to stiffened plate reliability analysis

Engineering Structures

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 544-551

  Zheng, Y ^a   Das, P K ^b  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Regression; Reliability; Response surface; Statistics; Stiffened plates; Structural mechanics

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; ELASTIC MODULI; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

STIFFENED PLATES; STRUCTURAL MECHANICS;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 0033908933     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-0296(98)00136-9     Document Type: Article

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