Probabilistic limit and shakedown analysis of thin plates and shells

Structural Safety

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-18

  Trần, Thanh Ngoc ^a   Kreissig R ^b   Staat, M ^a  

^a AACHEN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Design point; First order reliability method; Limit analysis; Second order reliability method; Sequential quadratic programming; Shakedown analysis

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

DESIGN POINT; DESIGN POINTS; DIRECT APPROACH; FIRST-ORDER RELIABILITY METHOD; FORM/SORM; INPUT DATA; LIMIT ANALYSIS; LIMIT STATE FUNCTIONS; NON-LINEAR; NON-LINEAR PROBLEMS; NUMERICAL ERRORS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLES; PLASTIC COLLAPSE; PLATES AND SHELLS; PRESENT METHOD; SECOND-ORDER RELIABILITY METHOD; SECOND-ORDER RELIABILITY METHODS; SEQUENTIAL QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; SHAKEDOWN ANALYSIS; THIN PLATES;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 52749094159     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2007.10.003     Document Type: Article

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