Reliability and reliability-based design optimization

Turkish Journal of Engineering and Environmental Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 237-249

  Toǧan, Vedat ^a   Daloǧlu, Ayşe ^a  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Evolutionary computation; Optimization; Reliability; Reliability based design optimization; Truss

Indexed keywords

CANTILEVER BEAMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY; SAFETY FACTOR; TRUSSES;

EVOLUTION STRATEGY; ROOF TRUSS SYSTEM; SEQUENTIAL QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

CANTILEVER BEAMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY; SAFETY FACTOR; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TRUSSES;

DESIGN METHOD; FAILURE ANALYSIS; GENETIC ALGORITHM; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RESPONSE ANALYSIS; ROOF; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE;

EID: 33750280112     PISSN: 13000160     EISSN: 13036157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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