Realistic and efficient reliability estimation for aerospace structures

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 194, Issue 12-16, 2005, Pages 1597-1617

  Pradlwarter, H J ^a   Pellissetti, M F ^a   Schenk, C A ^a   Schueller G I ^a   Kreis, A ^b   Fransen, S ^c   Calvi, A ^d   Klein, M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b Andreas Kreis Consultancies ^*  (Switzerland)

^c Haagse Schouwweg 6/g   (Netherlands)

^d EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aerospace structural engineering; Computational stochastic structural analysis; Gradient estimation; Line sampling; Monte Carlo simulation; Structural reliability analysis

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY THEORY;

AEROSPACE STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

AEROSPACE APPLICATION; MATHEMATICAL METHOD; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 13844305933     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2004.05.029     Document Type: Article

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