Magazine Article

Software for Probabilistic Analysis of Composite Structures

TBMG-32170

07/01/1998

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GENOA is an advanced, completely integrated, hierarchical software package for computationally simulating the thermal and mechanical responses of high-temperature composite materials and of structures made of those materials. The development of GENOA was guided partly by the need for a computational tool that could accelerate the design process while making it possible to avoid designing structures to be unnecessarily heavy and expensive, as they can be when one follows a deterministic approach and uses simple safety factors to account for variability among structural components in the effort to design conservatively. GENOA implements a probabilistic approach in which design criteria and objectives are based on quantified reliability targets that are consistent with the inherently stochastic nature of the properties of materials and structures.

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"Software for Probabilistic Analysis of Composite Structures," Mobility Engineering, July 1, 1998.
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Jul 1, 1998
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TBMG-32170
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English