Natural and anthropogenic hazards pose significant risks to individuals and communities.
Over the past few decades, risk and reliability analysis have gone from a specialty topic to a …

An important problem in structure reliability analysis is how to reduce the failure probability.
In this work, we introduce a main and total effect indices framework of global reliability …

To evaluate failure probability of structures in the most general case is computationally
demanding. The cost can be reduced by using the Response Surface Methodology, which …

The failure-probability-based global sensitivity measure can detect the effect of input
variables on the structural failure probability, which can provide useful information in …

The lack of an established safety format prohibits a widespread use of linear elastic fracture
mechanics (LEFM) for the fatigue assessment of steel bridges. The aim of this study is to …

Local reliability sensitivity (RS) and global RS can provide useful information in reliability-
based design optimization, but the algorithm for solving them is still a challenge, especially …

Estimating small failure probabilities of systems is one of the most challenging tasks in the
reliability analysis of engineering systems. Classic Monte Carlo simulation estimates the …

In this work, the fourth-moment method and the higher-order unscented transformation is
combined to calculate the failure probability. The higher-order unscented transformation is …

Abstract A Response Surface (RS) strategy is presented for the evaluation of the response
statistics of dynamic systems subjected to stochastic excitation. The proposed approach …

The scope of this paper is to apply a model-correction-based strategy for efficient reliability
analysis of uncertain dynamical systems based on a low-fidelity (LF) model whose outcomes …