Stochastic analysis of highly non-linear structures

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1221-1242

  Roux, Willem ^a   Stander, Nielen ^a   Günther, Frank ^b   Müllerschön, Heiner ^c  

^a LIVERMORE SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

^b DAIMLER AG   (Germany)

^c DYNAMORE GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bifurcation analysis; Response surfaces; Stability Visualization; Stochastic analysis

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY;

NON-LINEAR STRUCTURES; RESPONSE SURFACES; STABILITY VISUALIZATION; STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 32444448091     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1485     Document Type: Article

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