Structural Reliability analysis (SRA) is one of the prominent fields in civil and mechanical engineering. However, an accurate SRA in most cases deals with complex and costly …
Z Xiang, J Chen, Y Bao, H Li - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2020 - Elsevier
Owing to the tremendous computational cost of simulation for large-scale engineering structures, surrogate model method is widely used as a sample classifier in structural …
S Lee - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2021 - Elsevier
Monte Carlo simulation requires a large number of sampling points. In a Monte Carlo simulation, the performance function is calculated for all sampling points to determine the …
HP Wan, JR Gan, YK Zhu, Z Meng - Computer Methods in Applied …, 2024 - Elsevier
The integrity of structures in contemporary engineering practices is heavily influenced by inherent uncertainties, which necessitates the development of reliable structural reliability …
Establishing consistent criteria for assessing the performance of structural systems and infrastructure networks is a critical component of communities' efforts to optimize investment …
H Dai, Z Cao - Computer‐Aided Civil and Infrastructure …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Wavelet neural network (WNN) has been widely used in the field of civil engineering. However, WNN can only effectively handle problems of small dimensions as the …
H Dai, H Zhang, W Wang, G Xue - Computer‐Aided Civil and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The surrogate model method is widely used in structural reliability analysis to approximate complex limit state functions. Accurate results can only be obtained when the surrogate …
The deteriorating state of highway bridges is traditionally ignored in estimating the seismic reliability of transportation networks. In this study, the present day seismic reliability of …
P Wei, C Tang, Y Yang - … Engineers, Part O: Journal of risk …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The aim of this article is to study the reliability analysis, parametric reliability sensitivity analysis and global reliability sensitivity analysis of structures with extremely rare failure …