Complementary intersection method for system reliability analysis

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 0410041-04100415

  Youn, Byeng D ^a   Wang, Pingfeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

BOUND METHOD; DIMENSION REDUCTION METHOD; EIGENVECTOR DIMENSION REDUCTIONS; FAILURE EVENTS; INTERSECTION MATRIXES; INTERSECTION METHOD; JOINT FAILURE; RELIABILITY METHODS; SECOND ORDERS; SYSTEM RELIABILITY;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955209191     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3086794     Document Type: Article

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