Reliability analysis of concrete structures with neural networks and response surfaces

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 110-128

  Gomes, Herbert Martins ^a   Awruch, Armando Miguel ^a  

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

Author keywords

Finite element analysis; Neural nets; Reinforced concrete; Structural analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REINFORCED CONCRETE; RELIABILITY THEORY; SAMPLING; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; SURFACES;

FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; FIRST-ORDER RELIABILITY METHOD (FORM); RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RESPONSE SURFACES (RS);

CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION;

EID: 13844253713     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644400510572433     Document Type: Article

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