Reliability sensitivity method by line sampling

Structural Safety

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 517-532

  Lu, Zhenzhou ^a   Song, Shufang ^a   Yue, Zhufeng ^a   Wang, Jian ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Failure probability; Line sampling; Reliability; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMBER THEORY; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RAILROAD PLANT AND STRUCTURES; RANDOM PROCESSES; RANDOM VARIABLES; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

(2+1)-DIMENSIONAL; COMPUTATION EFFORT; COMPUTATIONALLY EXPENSIVE; DISTRIBUTION PARAMETERS; ELSEVIER (CO); FAILURE PROBABILITIES; HIGH DIMENSIONAL PROBLEMS; LINE SAMPLING; MONTE CARLO TECHNIQUES; NUMERICAL EXAMPLES; RELIABILITY SENSITIVITY; RELIABILITY SENSITIVITY ALGORITHM; SIMULATION ALGORITHMS;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 45249101348     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2007.10.001     Document Type: Article

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