Reliability of structures in high dimensions, part I: Algorithms and applications

Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 409-417

  Koutsourelakis, P S ^a   Pradlwarter, H J ^a   Schueller G I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Line sampling; Markov Chain Monte Carlo; Reliability; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RELIABILITY; VECTORS;

DISCRETE RANDOM VARIABLES; LINE SAMPLING; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; ORTHOGONAL TRANSORMATIONS;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 4644346521     PISSN: 02668920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.probengmech.2004.05.001     Document Type: Article

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