Interval reliability analysis

2007 Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, DETC2007

Volumn 6 PART B, Issue , 2008, Pages 1103-1109

  Du, Xiaoping ^a  

^a Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS METHODS; BLACK BOX FUNCTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS; DESIGN AUTOMATION CONFERENCE (DAC); ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; EXTREME VALUES; FIRST ORDER RELIABILITY METHOD (FORM); GENERAL (CO); INTERNATIONAL DESIGNS; INTERVAL VARIABLES; INVERSE RELIABILITY; LOWER AND UPPER BOUNDS; MIXTURE OF DISTRIBUTIONS; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATIONS; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PROBABILITY MEASURES; PROBABILITY OF FAILURE (POF); TECHNICAL CONFERENCES;

AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; AUTOMATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTERS; ENGINEERING; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MECHANIZATION; MULTITASKING; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RANDOM VARIABLES; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROBOTICS; SAFETY ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGY; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 44949145316     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2007-34582     Document Type: Conference Paper

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