Reliability analysis of automotive body-door subsystem

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 315-324

  Zou, T ^a   Mahadevan, Sankaran ^a   Mourelatos, Z ^b   Meernik, P ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive importance sampling; Adaptive response surface; Optimal symmetric Latin hypercube; Trust region

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RELIABILITY;

ADAPTIVE RESPONSE SURFACE;

SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

EID: 0036890832     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(02)00178-3     Document Type: Article

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