Time-variant redundancy of structural systems

Structure and Infrastructure Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 279-301

  Okasha, Nader M ^a   Frangopol, Dan M ^a  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

Damage; Deterioration; Redundancy; Reliability; Structural systems; Time

Indexed keywords

APPLIED LOADS; CORRELATION STRUCTURE; DAMAGE; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMISATION; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; RATE OF INCREASE; RISK-BASED MANAGEMENTS; STRUCTURAL REDUNDANCY; STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY; STRUCTURAL RESISTANCE; STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS; TIME FACTORS; TIME VARIANT;

DETERIORATION; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; REDUNDANCY;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 75749151335     PISSN: 15732479     EISSN: 17448980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15732470802664514     Document Type: Article

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