Response variability in reinforced concrete structures with uncertain geometrical and material properties

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 226, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 205-220

  De Vasconcellos Real, Mauro ^a,d   Campos Filho, Américo ^b   Maestrini, Sérgio Roberto ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

^d NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAMS AND GIRDERS; COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

RUPTURE LOADS;

REINFORCED CONCRETE;

EID: 0242443247     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-5493(03)00110-9     Document Type: Article

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