Implications of High-Dimensional Geometry for Structural Reliability Analysis and a Novel Linear Response Surface Method Based on SVM

International Journal of Computational Methods

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Alibrandi, Umberto ^a   Alani, Amir ^b   Koh, C G ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

design point; FORM; response surface; Structural reliability analysis; SVM

Indexed keywords

FORMING; GEOMETRY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

DESIGN POINTS; FIRST ORDER RELIABILITY METHODS; HIGH DIMENSIONAL SPACES; LOW-DIMENSIONAL SPACES; RESPONSE SURFACE; STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY; STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR METHOD;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84938739271     PISSN: 02198762     EISSN: 17936969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219876215400162     Document Type: Article

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