Monte Carlo and variance reduction methods for structural reliability analysis: A comprehensive review

C Song, R Kawai - Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, 2023 - Elsevier
Monte Carlo methods have attracted constant and even increasing attention in structural
reliability analysis with a wide variety of developments seamlessly presented over decades …

An efficient reliability analysis method for structures with hybrid time-dependent uncertainty

K Zhang, N Chen, P Zeng, J Liu, M Beer - Reliability Engineering & System …, 2022 - Elsevier
Performing time-dependent reliability analysis is an effective way to estimate the failure
probability of structural system throughout its lifetime. In the engineering practices, uncertain …

A single-loop Kriging coupled with subset simulation for time-dependent reliability analysis

D Wang, H Qiu, L Gao, C Jiang - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2021 - Elsevier
Time-dependent reliability analysis (TRA) plays an important role in improving the validity
and practicability of product reliability evaluation over an interested life interval …

A novel Nested Stochastic Kriging model for response noise quantification and reliability analysis

P Hao, S Feng, H Liu, Y Wang, B Wang… - Computer Methods in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Surrogate models and adaptive methods can release the huge computational burden of
structural reliability analysis. However, it is very difficult to guarantee the accuracy of …

Global and local Kriging limit state approximation for time-dependent reliability-based design optimization through wrong-classification probability

C Jiang, Y Yan, D Wang, H Qiu, L Gao - Reliability Engineering & System …, 2021 - Elsevier
Time-dependent reliability-based design optimization is an effective tool to guarantee a high
reliability of the product during the full life cycle. However, the necessarily repeated …

Time-dependent system reliability analysis using adaptive single-loop Kriging with probability of rejecting classification

D Wang, H Qiu, L Gao, D Xu, C Jiang - Structural and Multidisciplinary …, 2023 - Springer
In this paper, a new single-loop active learning Kriging method with probability of rejecting
classification is proposed for solving time-dependent system reliability analysis problems …

LSTM-augmented deep networks for time-variant reliability assessment of dynamic systems

M Li, Z Wang - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents a long short-term memory (LSTM)-augmented deep learning framework
for time-dependent reliability analysis of dynamic systems. To capture the behavior of …

Application of LSTM based on the BAT-MCS for binary-state network approximated time-dependent reliability problems

WC Yeh, CM Du, SY Tan… - Reliability Engineering & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Reliability is an important tool for evaluating the performance of modern networks. Currently,
it is NP-hard and# P-hard to calculate the exact reliability of a binary-state network when the …

An efficient semi-analytical extreme value method for time-variant reliability analysis

Z Meng, J Zhao, C Jiang - Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 2021 - Springer
Time-variant reliability analysis plays a vital role in improving the validity and practicability of
product reliability evaluation over a specific time interval. Sampling-based extreme value …

[HTML][HTML] Reliability analysis using a multi-metamodel complement-basis approach

R Teixeira, B Martinez-Pastor, M Nogal… - Reliability Engineering & …, 2021 - Elsevier
The present work discusses an innovative approach to metamodeling in reliability that uses
a field-transversal rationale. Adaptive metamodeling in reliability is characterized by its large …