Probabilistic interval response and reliability analysis of structures with a mixture of random and interval properties

CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 151-189

  Gao, Wei ^a   Song, Chongmin ^a   Tin Loi, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Interval reliability; Probabilistic interval analysis; Random interval moment method; Random interval perturbation method; Random interval response

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT; FIRST ORDER RELIABILITY METHODS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; INTERVAL ANALYSIS; INTERVAL PARAMETER; LOWER AND UPPER BOUNDS; MATRIX; MEAN VALUES; MOMENT METHODS; PROBABILITY OF FAILURE; RANDOM INTERVAL; RELIABILITY INDEX; SECOND ORDERS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATIC RESPONSE; STRESS RESPONSE; STRUCTURAL DISPLACEMENT; STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE; STRUCTURAL STIFFNESS;

METHOD OF MOMENTS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RANDOM PROCESSES; RANDOM VARIABLES; STIFFNESS MATRIX; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 76249127466     PISSN: 15261492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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