Analytical approximation for stationary reliability of certain and uncertain linear dynamic systems with higher-dimensional output

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1247-1267

  Taflanidis, A A ^a   Beck, J L ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

First passage problem; Model uncertainty; Reliability design and optimization; Structural reliability

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMICS; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY;

DESIGN RELIABILITY; FAILURE BOUNDARY; FIRST-PASSAGE PROBLEM; MODEL UNCERTAINTY; STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL METHOD; BOUNDARY INTEGRAL METHOD; GAUSSIAN METHOD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SEISMIC DESIGN; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33746826454     PISSN: 00988847     EISSN: 10969845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eqe.581     Document Type: Article

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