Decomposition methods for structural reliability analysis

Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 239-250

  Xu, H ^a   Rahman, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bivariate method; Decomposition; Reliability; Response surface; Stochastic finite element and mesh free methods; Univariate method

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECOMPOSITION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FUNCTIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELIABILITY THEORY;

BIVARIATE METHOD; RESPONSE SURFACE; STOCHASTIC FINITE-ELEMENT AND MESH-FREE METHODS; UNIVARIATE METHOD;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 23844454565     PISSN: 02668920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.probengmech.2005.05.005     Document Type: Article

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