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

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to briefly summarize and review the theories and
methods of complex structures' dynamic reliability. Complex structures are usually …

For structural reliability analysis with low failure probability, traditional simulation methods
are time consuming approaches, which is a great challenge for estimating the failure …

The reliability analysis of complex structures usually involves implicit performance function
and expensive-to-evaluate computational models, which pose a great challenge for the …

In this paper, a novel reliability method called AK-DS for adaptive Kriging (AK)-based
directional sampling (DS) is proposed to efficiently estimate small failure probability. The AK …

Monte Carlo methods have attracted constant and even increasing attention in structural
reliability analysis with a wide variety of developments seamlessly presented over decades …

Owing to its time-consuming computation of complex structural responses, structural
reliability analysis is still one of the challenging tasks. In this work, based on the FORM, the …

In structural reliability analysis, the development of an efficient and versatile active learning
method applicable to problems of varying complexities remains a challenging task. The …

In structural reliability analysis, the estimation of rare failure probability is a significant
challenge. Directional importance sampling may address this challenge when a quasi …

A methodology using the subset simulation and the modified Metropolis-Hastings algorithm
with delayed rejection (SS-MMHDR) is developed to evaluate the time-dependent reliability …