Time variant reliability analysis of nonlinear structural dynamical systems using combined Monte Carlo simulations and asymptotic extreme value theory

CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 79-109

  Radhika, B ^a   Panda, S S ^a   Manohar, C S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; BESSEL FUNCTIONS; COSMIC RAY DETECTORS; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MECHANICS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RANDOM VARIABLES; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY THEORY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHRODINGER EQUATION; STAGES; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING;

(E ,2E) THEORY; (I ,J) CONDITIONS; ANALYTICAL RESULTS; BASIN OF ATTRACTION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTION (EVD); EXTREME VALUE THEORY (EVT); GOVERNING EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; ITO STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; LARGE-SCALE PROBLEMS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION (MCS); NONLINEAR STRUCTURAL DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; RANDOM EXCITATIONS; SOLUTION STRATEGY; STEADY STATE RESPONSES; STOCHASTIC EXCITATIONS; SYSTEM RESPONSES; TIME VARIANT RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; TWO STAGES; VIBRATING SYSTEMS; VIBRATION DATA; WHITE NOISE EXCITATIONS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 46349092765     PISSN: 15261492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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