Neural network approach to model the limit state surface for reliability analysis

Canadian Geotechnical Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1235-1244

  Goh, Anthony T C ^a   Kulhawy, Fred H ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

First order reliability method; Geotechnical structures; Limit state surface; Neural networks; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BACKPROPAGATION; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NEURAL NETWORKS; RELIABILITY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

GEOTECHNICAL STRUCTURES; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS;

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; FAILURE ANALYSIS; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; NUMERICAL METHOD; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0442296417     PISSN: 00083674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/t03-056     Document Type: Article

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