System reliability bounds: A new look with improvements

Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 265-278

  Ramachandran, Kanagasabai ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bonferroni bounds; Graph theory; Reliability bounds; Structural reliability; System analysis; System bounds

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; GRAPH THEORY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

BONFERRONI BOUNDS; STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY; SYSTEM BOUNDS;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; GRAPH THEORY; RELIABILITY THEORY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 33746418864     PISSN: 10286608     EISSN: 10290249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10286600412331330368     Document Type: Review

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