A fuzzy-based approach to comprehensive modeling and analysis of systems with epistemic uncertainties

Structural Safety

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 433-441

  Hanss, M ^a   Turrin, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crash safety; Fuzzy arithmetic; Landslide failure; Uncertainties

Indexed keywords

ALEATORY UNCERTAINTY; AUTOMOTIVE CRASHES; COMPREHENSIVE MODELING; CRASH SAFETY; ENGINEERING SCIENCE; EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTIES; FUZZY ARITHMETICS; GEOTECHNICAL; ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES; MODELING PROCEDURE; PROBABILITY THEORY; SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING; TRANSFORMATION METHODS; UNCERTAINTIES;

FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SET THEORY; FUZZY SETS; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; LANDSLIDES; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SAFETY ENGINEERING; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77957566142     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2010.06.003     Document Type: Article

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