Citation

Hohenbichler M, Rackwitz R. Reliab. Eng. 1981; 2(1): 1-6.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1981, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0143-8174(81)90023-8

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The distribution of strength of a bundle of perfectly brittle components in parallel with equal load sharing is studied. An early asymptotic result for stochastically independent components which is due to Daniels is generalized for components whose bearing capacities depend on a second uncertain variable in a multiplicative manner. In particular, if the componental strengths are log-normally distributed and equicorrelated it is shown that system strength is asymptotically ormal. Some applications and their validity to structural design are discussed.