Reliability assessment using discriminative sampling and metamodeling

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Wang, G Gary ^a   Wang, Liqun ^a   Shan, Songqing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERPOLATION; MACHINE DESIGN; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

CONVENTIONAL METHODS; INNOVATIVE METHOD; MULTIPLE FAILURES; RELIABILITY ASSESSMENTS; RELIABILITY ENGINEERING; RELIABILITY-BASED DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; SAMPLING GUIDANCE FUNCTION; SAMPLING STRATEGIES;

IMPORTANCE SAMPLING;

EID: 85072478513     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2005-01-0349     Document Type: Conference Paper

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