Comparison of finite element reliability methods

Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 337-348

  Sudret, Bruno ^a   Der Kiureghian, Armen ^b  

^a EDF R AND D   (France)

^b Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

FORM; Importance sampling; Random fields; Reliability; Stochastic finite elements

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; POLYNOMIALS; PROBABILITY;

RANDOM FIELDS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0036816751     PISSN: 02668920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-8920(02)00031-0     Document Type: Article

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