Engineering decisions: Information, knowledge and understanding

Structural Safety

Volumn 52, Issue PA, 2015, Pages 66-77

  Brown, Colin B ^a,b   Elms, David G ^c  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b Oregon State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Decision; Dependability; Engineering; Information; Knowledge; Quality; Understanding

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; IMAGE QUALITY; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

DECISION; DEPENDABILITY; INFORMATION; KNOWLEDGE; UNDERSTANDING;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84922329354     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2014.09.001     Document Type: Article

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