Effects of variable transformations on errors in FORM results

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 112-118

  Qin, Quan ^a   Lin, Daojin ^a   Mei, Gang ^a   Chen, Hao ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

FORM; Non normal distribution; Safety margin; Serviceability limit state; Transformation

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY;

NON-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SAFETY MARGIN; SERVICEABILITY LIMIT STATE;

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

EID: 24644473579     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2004.11.018     Document Type: Article

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