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Kmiecik, M. and Guedes Soares, C. (2002), “Response Surface Approach to the Probability Distribution of the Strength of Compressed Plates", Marine Structures, Vol. 15, Issue 2, pp. 139-156

A method is proposed to determine the cumulative probability distribution function of the strength of compressed plates using a response surface approach. The distribution function is constructed by applying a first order reliability method to calculate the probability of failure successively at different levels of loading. The limit state function is a response surface, which results from fitting a series to the results of a non-linear finite-element code. The approach has been applied to plates of different slenderness and boundary conditions and the results are compared with Monte Carlo simulations.

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