Transforming reliability limit-state constraints into deterministic limit-state constraints

Structural Safety

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 11-33

  Ching, Jianye ^a   Hsu, Wei Chih ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Reliability analysis; Reliability based design; Reliability based optimization; Subset simulation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; OPTIMIZATION; SET THEORY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

RELIABILITY-BASED DESIGN; RELIABILITY-BASED OPTIMIZATION; SUBSET SIMULATION;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SET THEORY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 34548484572     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2006.04.002     Document Type: Article

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