Reliability assessment of ship structures using Bayesian updating

Engineering Structures

Volumn 56, Issue , 2013, Pages 1836-1847

  Zhu, Benjin ^a   Frangopol, Dan M ^a  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian updating; Reliability; Ships; Structural health monitoring; Time variant

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN UPDATING; BAYESIAN UPDATING METHOD; EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTIONS; RELIABILITY ASSESSMENTS; STRUCTURAL HEATH MONITORING; TIME VARIANT; TIME-VARIANT RELIABILITY; WAVE-INDUCED VERTICAL BENDING MOMENTS;

RELIABILITY; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING;

SHIPS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BENDING; LOADING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SHIP DESIGN; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; WAVE-STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

EID: 84883633127     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2013.07.024     Document Type: Article

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