Investigation of reliability method formulations in DAKOTA/UQ

Structure and Infrastructure Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 199-213

  Eldred, M S ^a   Agarwal, H ^b   Perez, V M ^b   Wojtkiewicz, S F ^a   Renaud, J E ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Design optimization; Reliability; Software; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; MACHINE DESIGN; MOORING; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RANDOM PROCESSES; RANDOM VARIABLES; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; STEEL STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL PANELS;

COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENTS; DISTRIBUTION STATISTICS; INVERSE RELIABILITY; LIMIT STATES; METRICS (CO); OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; PERFORMANCE MEASURE APPROACH (PMA+); PROBABILISTIC ALGORITHMS; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE (RP); RELIABILITY ALGORITHMS; RELIABILITY BASED DESIGN OPTIMIZATION (RBDO); RELIABILITY INDEX (RI); RELIABILITY METHODS; RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; RESPONSE LEVELS; UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION (UQ);

RELIABILITY;

EID: 48249144024     PISSN: 15732479     EISSN: 17448980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15732470500254618     Document Type: Article

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