Wei Gao1, Chongmin Song1, Francis Tin-Loi1
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.46, No.2, pp. 151-190, 2009, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2009.046.151
Abstract Static response and reliability of structures with a mixture of random and interval parameters under uncertain loads are investigated in this paper. Structural stiffness matrix is a random interval matrix when some structural parameters are modeled as random variables and others are considered as intervals. The structural displacement and stress responses are also random interval variables. From the static finite element governing equations, the random interval structural responses are obtained using the random interval perturbation method based on the first- and second-order perturbations. The expressions for mean value and standard deviation of random interval structural More >