Reliability-based optimum design of cable-stayed bridges

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 28, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 214-220

  Negrao J H O ^a   Simoes L M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cable stayed bridge; Multiple objectives; Reliability based design; Structural optimisation

Indexed keywords

COSTS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FUNCTION EVALUATION; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; STRESSES; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

CABLE-STAYED BRIDGE; MULTIPLE-OBJECTIVES; RELIABILITY-BASED DESIGN; STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS;

BRIDGES;

EID: 5144235126     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00158-004-0408-x     Document Type: Article

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