An enhanced hybrid method for the simulation of highly skewed non-Gaussian stochastic fields

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 194, Issue 45-47, 2005, Pages 4824-4844

  Lagaros, Nikos D ^a   Stefanou, George ^a   Papadrakakis, Manolis ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Non Gaussian field; Soft computing; Translation field

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FUNCTIONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ENHANCED HYBRID METHODS (EHM); NON-GAUSSIAN STOCHASTIC FIELDS; RESILIENT BACK-PROPAGATION (RPROP); SPECTRAL DENSITY FUNCTIONS;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

NON-GAUSSIAN RESPONSE;

EID: 23444443009     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2004.12.009     Document Type: Article

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