Abstract
Information and data in mechanics, as in many other scientific disciplines, can be certainly known with an error-safety coefficient (deterministic), random with a known probability distribution (probabilistic), or random known with an uncertainty factor in the information (possibilistic). When the information on the parameters is undermined, probabilistic/possibilistic mechanical techniques attempt to provide an estimate of the solution. For various mechanical problems involving probabilistic/possibility parameters, a constraint that must be met is sometimes added, as in the case of reliability analysis. In this paper, an approach for probabilistic/possibilistic dynamic analysis is introduced and validated. In addition, its extension for finite element structural analysis is presented.
Funder
King Abdulaziz University
Subject
General Mathematics,Engineering (miscellaneous),Computer Science (miscellaneous)