TY - GEN
T1 - Reliability evaluation of dynamic systems in time domain using nonlinear finite element method
AU - Haldar, A.
AU - Huh, J.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Reliability analysis of nonlinear structures in the presence of major sources of nonlinearity is becoming an integral part of performance-based design guidelines. Finite element method is routinely used for the realistic representation of nonlinear structural behavior. However, the use of nonlinear finite element method will make the performance or limit state function, generally required for the reliability analysis, to be implicit. The authors propose a reliability evaluation technique when the limit state function is implicit. In this paper, the concept is extended to dynamic problems. The unique feature of this approach is that the uncertain dynamic loadings, including seismic loading, can be applied in time domain for the reliability evaluation.
AB - Reliability analysis of nonlinear structures in the presence of major sources of nonlinearity is becoming an integral part of performance-based design guidelines. Finite element method is routinely used for the realistic representation of nonlinear structural behavior. However, the use of nonlinear finite element method will make the performance or limit state function, generally required for the reliability analysis, to be implicit. The authors propose a reliability evaluation technique when the limit state function is implicit. In this paper, the concept is extended to dynamic problems. The unique feature of this approach is that the uncertain dynamic loadings, including seismic loading, can be applied in time domain for the reliability evaluation.
KW - Implicit limit state function
KW - Nonlinear finite element method
KW - Reliability evaluation
KW - Reliability evaluation in time domain
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80053454792
SN - 0080444814
SN - 9780080444819
T3 - 3rd M.I.T. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics
SP - 247
EP - 249
BT - 3rd M.I.T. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics
T2 - 3rd M.I.T. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics
Y2 - 14 June 2005 through 17 June 2005
ER -