Sample average approximations in reliability-based structural optimization: Theory and applications

Structural Design Optimization Considering Uncertainties

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 307-334

  Royset, Johannes O ^a   Polak, Elijah ^b  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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