Probabilistic modeling of graded timber material properties

Structural Safety

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 295-309

  Faber, Michael Havbro ^a   Köhler, Jochen ^a   Sorensen, John Dalsgaard ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acceptance criteria; Characteristic values; Grading; Quality control; Statistical analyses; Tail behavior; Timber

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY THEORY; STATISTICAL METHODS; TIMBER;

CODIFICATION; STATISTICAL MODELS;

GRADING;

QUALITY CONTROL; TIMBER INDUSTRY;

EID: 1542286096     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2003.08.002     Document Type: Article

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