Sensitivity studies in reliability‐based plastic design
Abstract
The paper attempts to establish the connection between structural reliability and structural optimization for the particular case of plastic structures. Along this line, the paper outlines a reliability‐based optimization approach to design plastic structures with uncertain interdependent strengths and acted on by random interdependent loads. The importance of such interdependencies, and of some of the other statistical parameters used as input data in probabilistic computations, is demonstrated by several examples of sensitivity studies on both the probability of collapse failure as well as the reliability‐based optimum solution.
Citation
Frangopol, D.M. (1984), "Sensitivity studies in reliability‐based plastic design", Engineering Computations, Vol. 1 No. 3, pp. 237-246. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb023578
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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