Model-free sampling

Structural Safety

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 49-65

  Beer, Michael ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fuzzy randomness; Imprecise data; Monte Carlo simulation; Safety assessment; Sampling; Uncertain structural analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SAMPLING;

FUZZY RANDOMNESS; IMPRECISE DATA; MODEL-FREE SAMPLING; RANDOM VECTOR SAMPLING; SAFETY ASSESSMENT;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SAMPLING; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33749058526     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2006.01.001     Document Type: Article

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