An approach for testing methods for modeling uncertainty

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1038-1049

  Haftka, Raphael T ^a   Rosca, Raluca I ^a   Nikolaidis, Efstratios ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Method testing; Possibility; Probability; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

METHOD TESTING; POSSIBILISTIC MODELS; PROBABILISTIC MODELS;

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 33748631276     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2214738     Document Type: Article

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