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In many reliability problems integrals of the following form
are of interest. Here f(x, τ) is usually a probability density and g(x, τ) a limit state function. Both functions depend on a parameter vector τ. Then F(τ) denotes the failure probability for the parameter value τ.
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Breitung, K. (1995). Parameter-dependent integrals: some mathematical tools. In: Rackwitz, R., Augusti, G., Borri, A. (eds) Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34866-7_8
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