Reliability bounds through random sets: Non-parametric methods and geotechnical applications

Computers and Structures

Volumn 86, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1093-1101

  Oberguggenberger, Michael ^a   Fellin, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Data uncertainty; Geotechnical engineering; Non parametric methods; Random sets; Reliability of structures; Sensitivity analysis; Tchebycheff's inequality

Indexed keywords

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; MODEL STRUCTURES; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DATA UNCERTAINTY; EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTY; NON PARAMETRIC METHODS; RANDOM SETS; TCHEBYCHEFF'S INEQUALITY;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 41549151093     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2007.05.040     Document Type: Article

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