FORM for discontinuous and truncated probability density functions

Structural Safety

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 305-313

  Melchers, R E ^a   Ahammed, M ^a   Middleton, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Convergence; Discontinuities; First Order Reliability method (FORM); Fluctuations; Probability spikes; Truncation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS;

RANDOM VARIABLES;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037411126     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4730(03)00002-X     Document Type: Article

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3. Ditlevsen O, Olesen R, Mohr G. Solution of a class of load combination problems by directional simulation. Structural Safety 1987;4:95-109.