New approach for reliability-based design optimization: Minimum error point

Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering (English Edition)

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 514-518

  Liu, Deshun ^a   Yue, Wenhui ^a   Zhu, Pingyu ^a   Du, Xiaoping ^b  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Architectural and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Minimum error point; Most probable point; Reliability; Reliability based design optimization

Indexed keywords

CANTILEVER BEAMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; ERRORS; FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY;

CONSTRAINT FUNCTION; MINIMUM ERROR POINT; MOST PROBABLE POINT; RELIABILITY BASED DESIGN OPTIMIZATION;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 33846516795     PISSN: 10009345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3901/cjme.2006.04.514     Document Type: Article

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