On multinormal integrals by Importance Sampling for parallel system reliability

Structural Safety

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-7

  Patelli, Edoardo ^a   Pradlwarter, Helmut J ^a   Schuëller, Gerhart I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Importance Sampling; Monte Carlo simulation; Multinormal integration; Parallel system; Reliability analysis; Simulation procedures

Indexed keywords

IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MULTINORMAL INTEGRATION; PARALLEL SYSTEM; SIMULATION PROCEDURES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 78649324462     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2010.04.002     Document Type: Article

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