Reliability-based design of automobile components

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering

Volumn 216, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 455-471

  Zhang, Y ^a   Liu, Q ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Automobile components; Probabilistic perturbation method; Reliability based design; Second moment method

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; AUTOMOBILE SPRINGS; AXLES; BENDING MOMENTS; ELASTIC MODULI; METHOD OF MOMENTS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RELIABILITY THEORY;

PROBABILISTIC PERTURBATION METHOD; RELIABILITY BASED DESIGN THEORY; SECOND MOMENT METHOD;

AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0036962596     PISSN: 09544070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/09544070260137390     Document Type: Article

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