Improved response surface method for time-variant reliability analysis of nonlinear random structures under non-stationary excitations

Nonlinear Dynamics

Volumn 36, Issue 2-4, 2004, Pages 267-280

  Gupta, Sayan ^a   Manohar, C S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Improved response surface method; Material and geometric nonlinearity; Non Gaussian structural randomness; Time variant reliability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELIABILITY; VIBRATION CONTROL;

IMPROVED RESPONSE SURFACE METHOD; MATERIAL AND GEOMETRIC NONLINEARITY; NON-GAUSSIAN STRUCTURAL RANDOMNESS; TIME-VARIANT RELIABILITY;

NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 7544222286     PISSN: 0924090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:NODY.0000045519.49715.93     Document Type: Article

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