Reliability-based design optimization for elastoplastic mechanical structures

Computers and Structures

Volumn 85, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 615-625

  Kaymaz, Irfan ^a   Marti, Kurt ^b  

^a ATATÜRK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BUNDESWEHR UNIVERSITY MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Direct computation of the point; Elastoplastic mechanical structures; Reliability analysis; Reliability based design optimization

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RELIABILITY;

DIRECT COMPUTATION OF THE Β-POINT; ELASTOPLASTIC MECHANICAL STRUCTURES; RELIABILITY-BASED DESIGN OPTIMIZATION;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 33947245463     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2006.08.076     Document Type: Article

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