Estimating parameter distributions in structural reliability assessment using the Transferable Belief Model

Computers and Structures

Volumn 86, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1052-1060

  McGill, William L ^a   Ayyub, Bilal M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Belief functions; Data fusion; Risk analysis; Structural reliability; Theory of evidence; Transferable Belief Model

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DATA FUSION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RISK ANALYSIS;

BELIEF FUNCTIONS; PARAMETER DISTRIBUTIONS; STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY; THEORY OF EVIDENCES; TRANSFERABLE BELIEF MODELS;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 41549156387     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2007.05.038     Document Type: Article

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