Smart Structures and Systems

Volume 2, Number 4, 2006, pages 313-320

DOI: 10.12989/sss.2006.2.4.313

A reliability-based criterion of structural performance for structures with linear damping

Agnessa Kovaleva

Abstract

The reliability analysis of structures subjected to stochastic loading involves evaluation of time and probability of the system

Key Words

first-passage time problem; reliability; large deviations analysis.

Address

Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117997, Russia