Designing robust structures - A nonlinear simulation based approach

Computers and Structures

Volumn 86, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1102-1122

  Beer, Michael ^a   Liebscher, Martin ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cluster methods; Decision making; Inverse problem; Nonlinear structural analysis; Robust structural design; Uncertainty processing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DECISION MAKING; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLUSTER METHODS; NONLINEAR STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; ROBUST STRUCTURAL DESIGN; UNCERTAINTY PROCESSING;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 41549093646     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2007.05.037     Document Type: Article

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