Strain and stress computations in stochastic finite element methods

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1219-1239

  Ghosh, Debraj ^a   Farhat, Charbel ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Polynomial chaos; Stochastic finite element; Stress analysis; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTEGRATION; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS; STRESSES;

GAUSS-HERMITE QUADRATURE; POLYNOMIAL CHAOS; STOCHASTIC FINITE ELEMENT;

STRAIN;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTEGRATION; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS; STRAIN; STRESSES;

EID: 43449100051     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2206     Document Type: Article

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