Cumulative formation of response surface and its use in reliability analysis

Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 309-315

  Das, P K ^a   Zheng, Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; INTERPOLATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SAMPLING; STIFFNESS; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

FIRST ORDER RELIABILITY METHOD; RESPONSE SURFACE METHOD; SECOND ORDER EFFECT; STRUCTURAL MECHANICS; VECTOR PROJECTION TECHNIQUE;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EID: 0034298561     PISSN: 02668920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-8920(99)00030-2     Document Type: Article

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