Reliability analysis of laminated composite structures using finite elements and neural networks

Composite Structures

Volumn 92, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1603-1613

  Lopes, P A M ^a   Gomes, H M ^a   Awruch, A M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Laminated composite structures; Structural reliability

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS; CHECK POINTS; COMPUTER PROCESSING; FINITE ELEMENT; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FIRST ORDER RELIABILITY METHODS; IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; MONTE CARLO; MULTI-LAYER PERCEPTRON NETWORKS; NONLINEAR BEHAVIOR; OPTIMUM STRUCTURAL DESIGN; PROCESSING TIME; RADIAL BASIS NETWORKS; RELIABILITY INDEX; RELIABILITY METHODS; STRUCTURAL PERFORMANCE; STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY;

DELAMINATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LAMINATED COMPOSITES; LAMINATING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

NEURAL NETWORKS;

FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LAMINATE; NEURAL NETWORK; OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 76049120427     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2009.11.023     Document Type: Article

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