Contrasting probabilistic and anti-optimization approaches in an applied mechanics problem

International Journal of Solids and Structures

Volumn 40, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 4281-4297

  Elishakoff, I ^a   Zingales, M ^b  

^a Florida Atlantic Univ   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Probabilistic; Reliability

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RELIABILITY; STRUCTURAL LOADS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

IMPACT AXIAL LOADS;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

MATHEMATICAL METHOD; MECHANICAL STABILITY;

EID: 0037590014     PISSN: 00207683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7683(03)00196-3     Document Type: Article

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