Failure surface frontier for reliability assessment on expensive performance function

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 128, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1227-1235

  Shan, Songqing ^a   Wang, G Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discriminative sampling; Failure surface frontier; Reliability analysis; Reliability assessment

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; SAMPLING;

DISCRIMINATIVE SAMPLING; FAILURE SURFACE FRONTIER; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT;

FAILURE (MECHANICAL);

EID: 33845754536     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2337311     Document Type: Article

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