Computational analysis of randomness in structural mechanics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bucher, Christian (Structural engineer)
Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Boca Raton [Fla.] ; London : CRC Press, ©2009.
Series:	Structures and infrastructures series ; v. 3.
Subjects:	Structural analysis (Engineering) > Data processing. Stochastic analysis. Théorie des constructions > Informatique. Analyse stochastique. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Structural. Stochastic analysis Structural analysis (Engineering) > Data processing Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Imperfections 5.3 Stochastic Finite Element Formulation 5.3.1 Elasticity (Plane Stress) 5.3.2 Principle of Virtual Work 5.4 Finite Element Method 5.4.1 Element Formulation 5.4.2 Structural response 5.4.3 Stochastic Stiffness Matrix 5.4.4 Integration Point Method 5.4.5 Static Response
Perturbation Method 5.4.6 Monte Carlo Simulation 5.4.7 Natural Frequencies of a Structure with Randomly Distributed Elastic Modulus 6 Computation of failure probabilities 6.1 Structural Reliability 6.1.1 Definitions 6.1.2 First Order
Second Moment Concept 6.1.3 FORM
First Order Reliability Method 6.2 Monte-Carlo-Simulation 6.2.1 Definitions and Basics 6.2.2 Importance Sampling (Weighted Simulation) 6.2.3 Directional Sampling 6.2.4 Asymptotic Sampling 6.3 Application of RSM 6.3.1 Basic