Structural collapse simulation under consideration of uncertainty - Improvement of numerical efficiency

Computers and Structures

Volumn 86, Issue 19-20, 2008, Pages 1875-1884

  Möller, Bernd ^a   Liebscher, Martin ^a   Schweizerhof, Karl ^b   Mattern, Steffen ^b   Blankenhorn, Gunther ^b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Finite element simulation; Fuzzy randomness; Neural network; Response surface methodology; Structural collapse; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; NEURAL NETWORKS; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFORTS; CONTACT PHENOMENA; DETERMINISTIC COMPUTATION; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATION; FUZZY RANDOMNESS; IMPRECISE INFORMATION; LARGE DEFORMATIONS; NEURAL NETWORK; NON-LINEAR BEHAVIORS; NUMERICAL EFFICIENCY; RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY; STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL COLLAPSE; STRUCTURAL COLLAPSES; STRUCTURAL PARAMETERS; STRUCTURAL RESPONSES; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTIONS; UNCERTAINTY;

EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE;

EID: 49049108106     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2008.04.011     Document Type: Article

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