Being conservative with a limited number of test results

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1969-1975

  An, Jungeun ^a,c   Acar, Erdem ^a,d   Haftka, Raphael T ^a,c   Kim, Nam H ^a,c   Ifju, Peter G ^a,c   Johnson, Theodore F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Technology Hall N272B

^d TOBB UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; OIL WELL DRILLING EQUIPMENT; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

AIRCRAFT STRUCTURAL DESIGN; ANALYTICAL PREDICTIONS; BAYESIAN APPROACHES; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; UPPER AND LOWER BOUNDS;

TESTING;

EID: 57649136680     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.35551     Document Type: Conference Paper

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