Reliability assessment on the concept of failure surface frontier

Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference - DETC2005

Volumn 2 B, Issue , 2005, Pages 1123-1132

  Shan, Songqing ^a   Wang, G Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discriminative sampling; Failure surface frontier; Reliability analysis; Reliability assessment

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FUNCTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING;

DISCRIMINATIVE SAMPLING; FAILURE SURFACE FRONTIER; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT;

SURFACES;

EID: 33144461660     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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