Reliability Analysis of Structures with Weibull Distributions of Load and Strength to a Given Confidence Level.

摘要

The statistical variation of load and strength is described by a three parameter Weibull distribution. The Weibull parameters are evaluated by a least square analysis and a method is presented which allows confidence bounds to be assigned to these quantities. A Monte Carlo analysis is used to calculate the reliability of the structure from the load and strength distributions. (Author)