Reliability and redundancy assessment of ships under different operational conditions

Engineering Structures

Volumn 42, Issue , 2012, Pages 457-471

  Decò, Alberto ^a   Frangopol, Dan M ^a   Zhu, Benjin ^a  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

Hull strength; Operational conditions; Performance indicators; Polar representation; Redundancy; Reliability; Ships; Time variant

Indexed keywords

HULL STRENGTH; OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS; PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; POLAR REPRESENTATION; TIME VARIANT;

BENCHMARKING; HULLS (SHIP); OCEAN CURRENTS; RELIABILITY; SHIPS;

REDUNDANCY;

CORROSION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FLEXURE; HULL; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; VESSEL; WATER WAVE;

EID: 84861922710     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2012.04.017     Document Type: Article

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