New multidimensional visualization technique for limit-state surfaces in nonlinear finite-element reliability analysis

Journal of Engineering Mechanics

Volumn 136, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1390-1400

  Barbato, Michele ^a   Gu, Quan ^b,c   Conte, Joel P ^c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Imaging techniques; Limit states; Structural reliability

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION EXAMPLES; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; CROSSING RATES; DESIGN POINTS; FAILURE DOMAINS; FAILURE PROBABILITY; FINITE-ELEMENT; FINITE-ELEMENT MODELS; GEOMETRIC APPROXIMATIONS; HIGH DIMENSIONAL SPACES; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; HYPER-SURFACES; HYPERSURFACE; LIMIT STATE; LIMIT-STATE FUNCTION; MULTIDIMENSIONAL VISUALIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; REAL-WORLD; RELIABILITY METHODS; RELIABILITY PROBLEMS; SECOND-ORDER RELIABILITY METHODS; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY; TIME INVARIANTS; TIME VARIANT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SUBSPACES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RANDOM VARIABLES; REAL VARIABLES; TOPOLOGY; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGING METHOD; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 77957896012     PISSN: 07339399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EM.1943-7889.0000183     Document Type: Article

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