Computational methods for accounting of structural uncertainties, applications to dynamic behavior prediction of piping systems

Structural Safety

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 29-50

  Cambier, Simon ^a   Guihot, Pascal ^a   Coffignal, Gérard ^b  

^a Research and Development Division   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Global optimization; Importance sampling; Industrial piping systems; Probability of failure; Structural reliability

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COSTS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SAMPLING; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR PREDICTION; VIBRATORY TEST CASES;

PIPING SYSTEMS;

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; PIPING SYSTEM; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036297544     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4730(02)00016-4     Document Type: Article

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