Purpose To provide valuable information for scholars to grasp the current situations,
hotspots and future development trends of reliability analysis area. Design/methodology …

This paper reviews previous studies on developments and applications of response surface
methods (RSMs) in different slope reliability problems. Based on the review, four types of …

Due to the uncertainties from modeling, manufacturing, and working environments, many
vibration active control systems usually show dynamic uncertain properties. Hence structural …

An important challenge in structural reliability is to keep to a minimum the number of calls to
the numerical models. Engineering problems involve more and more complex computer …

With complex performance functions and time-demanding computation of structural
responses, the estimation of small failure probabilities is a challenging problem in …

This accessible new edition explores the major topics in Monte Carlo simulation that have
arisen over the past 30 years and presents a sound foundation for problem solving …

The random field finite element method (RF-FEM) provides a robust tool for carrying out
slope reliability analysis that incorporates the spatial variability of soil properties. However, it …

The previous chapters developed several probabilistic approaches for geotechnical site
characterization. These probabilistic approaches provide probabilistic characterization of …

A major issue in the structural reliability analysis is to determine an accurate estimation
result of the failure probability ideally based on a small number of model evaluations. In this …

Estimation of small failure probabilities is one of the most important and challenging
computational problems in reliability engineering. The failure probability is usually given by …