Abstract: The performance of a new, fast probability integration method which combines an improved equivalent normal concept and a scheme for linearizing a quadratic limit state is carefully examined. The ...

Abstract: An analysis of a seal model is made where the rotating element has both fixed tilt and two-lobe waviness. The stator is assumed to be gimbal mounted and to have inertial mass. Hydrodynamic ...

Abstract: An efficient and accurate method for computing probabilities of failure,

Abstract: When design factors are considered as random variables and the failure condition cannot be expressed by a closed form algebraic inequality, computations of risk (or probability of failure) may become extremely difficult ...