Reliability analysis-a review and some perspective

Structural Safety

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 365-395

  Rackwitz, Rüdiger ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asymptotic analysis; FORM SORM concepts; Importance sampling; Optimization; Risk acceptability; Stochastic finite elements; System reliabilitity; Time variant reliability

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0035743192     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4730(02)00009-7     Document Type: Article

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