Application of low-discrepancy sampling method in structural reliability analysis

Structural Safety

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 55-64

  Dai, Hongzhe ^a   Wang, Wei ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Error bound; Importance sampling; Low discrepancy sequence; Quasi Monte Carlo; Structural reliability

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; SEMICONDUCTOR COUNTERS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

ERROR BOUND; FAILURE PROBABILITIES; IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; LOW-DISCREPANCY SEQUENCE; LOW-DISCREPANCY SEQUENCES; MONTE CARLO; QUASI-MONTE CARLO; RANDOM SAMPLING; RATE OF CONVERGENCE; SAMPLING METHODS; SIMULATION METHODS; STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY; STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 52749096320     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2008.03.001     Document Type: Article

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