Reliability analysis of spacecraft structures under static and dynamic loading

Computers and Structures

Volumn 84, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 1313-1325

  Pellissetti, M F ^a   Schueller G I ^a   Pradlwarter, H J ^a   Calvi, A ^b   Fransen, S ^b   Klein, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo simulation; Spacecraft structures; Structural reliability; Uncertainty quantification

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMIC LOADS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY;

SPACECRAFT STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY; UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 33745216233     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2006.03.009     Document Type: Article

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