Fuzzy label methods for constructing imprecise limit state functions

Structural Safety

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 317-341

  Hall, Jim W ^a   Lawry, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Imprecise failure probabilities; Linguistic labels; Possibility analysis; Random sets; Reliability analysis

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; FUZZY SETS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY;

STATE FUNCTIONS;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

CONSTRUCTION; FUZZY MATHEMATICS;

EID: 0042703371     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4730(03)00003-1     Document Type: Article

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