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 …

Abstract Design optimization of structural and multidisciplinary systems under uncertainty
has been an active area of research due to its evident advantages over deterministic design …

The main task of structural reliability analysis is to estimate failure probability of a studied
structure taking randomness of input variables into account. To consider structural behavior …

Structural reliability analysis is typically evaluated based on a multivariate function that
describes underlying failure mechanisms of a structural system. It is necessary for a …

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 …

Applying reliability methods to a complex structure is often delicate for two main reasons.
First, such a structure is fortunately designed with codified rules leading to a large safety …

Approximation methods are widely used to alleviate the computational burden of
engineering analyses. For structural reliability analyses, the common approach is to use the …

As models in various fields are becoming more complex, associated computational
demands have been increasing significantly. Reliability analysis for these systems when …

Fast-running response surface models that approximate multivariate input/output
relationships of time-consuming physical-based computer models enable effective finite …