Representation and first-order approximations for propagation of aleatory and distribution parameter uncertainty

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  McDonald, Mark ^a   Zaman, Kais ^a   Mahadevan, Sankaran ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ERRORS; COMPUTATIONAL CODES; CONFIDENCE BOUNDS; CUMULATIVE PROBABILITIES; CUMULATIVE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION; DISTRIBUTION PARAMETERS; EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTIES; FIRST-ORDER APPROXIMATIONS; FORM ERRORS; OPTIMIZATION FORMULATIONS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PROBABILISTIC METHODS; PROBABILISTIC UNCERTAINTY; SPARSE DATA; SYSTEM RESPONSE; UNCERTAINTY PROPAGATION;

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; DYNAMICS; ERRORS; OCEAN STRUCTURES; RANDOM PROCESSES; RANDOM VARIABLES; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 84855622283     PISSN: 02734508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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