An integrated reliability-based design optimization of offshore towers

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1510-1516

  Karadeniz, Halil ^a   Toǧan, Vedat ^b   Vrouwenvelder, Ton ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Offshore towers; Reliability analysis; Reliability based optimization; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL OPTIMIZATION; CRITICAL STRESS; ECONOMICAL DESIGN; EXTREME WAVES; INTEGRATED ALGORITHM; LIMIT STATE; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; NUMERICAL STRATEGIES; OFFSHORE TOWERS; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION PROGRAMS; RELIABILITY CONSTRAINTS; RELIABILITY-BASED DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY-BASED OPTIMIZATION; UNCERTAINTY;

MACHINE DESIGN; MOORING; OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STEEL STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TOWERS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 67649421280     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2009.02.008     Document Type: Article

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