Engineering analysis with probability boxes: A review on computational methods

MGR Faes, M Daub, S Marelli, E Patelli, M Beer - Structural Safety, 2021 - Elsevier
The consideration of imprecise probability in engineering analysis to account for missing,
vague or incomplete data in the description of model uncertainties is a fast-growing field of …

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 …

Estimation of small failure probabilities by partially Bayesian active learning line sampling: Theory and algorithm

C Dang, MA Valdebenito, J Song, P Wei… - Computer Methods in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Line sampling (LS) has proved to be a highly promising advanced simulation technique for
assessing small failure probabilities. Despite the great interest in practical engineering …

[HTML][HTML] Bayesian active learning line sampling with log-normal process for rare-event probability estimation

C Dang, MA Valdebenito, P Wei, J Song… - Reliability Engineering & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Line sampling (LS) stands as a powerful stochastic simulation method for structural reliability
analysis, especially for assessing small failure probabilities. To further improve the …

Active learning line sampling for rare event analysis

J Song, P Wei, M Valdebenito, M Beer - Mechanical Systems and Signal …, 2021 - Elsevier
Line Sampling (LS) has been widely recognized as one of the most appealing stochastic
simulation algorithms for rare event analysis, but when applying it to many real-world …

Estimation of failure probability function under imprecise probabilities by active learning–augmented probabilistic integration

C Dang, P Wei, J Song, M Beer - ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and …, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
Imprecise probabilities have gained increasing popularity for quantitatively modeling
uncertainty under incomplete information in various fields. However, it is still a …

Efficient decoupling approach for reliability-based optimization based on augmented Line Sampling and combination algorithm

X Yuan, MA Valdebenito, B Zhang, MGR Faes… - Computers & …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents a novel decoupling approach to efficiently solve a class of reliability-
based design optimization (RBDO) problems by means of augmented Line Sampling. The …

Reliability analysis with cross-entropy based adaptive Markov chain importance sampling and control variates

MB Mehni, MB Mehni - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
In reliability analysis, high dimensional problems pose challenges to many existing
sampling methods. Cross-entropy based Gaussian mixture importance sampling has …

Fully decoupled reliability-based design optimization of structural systems subject to uncertain loads

MGR Faes, MA Valdebenito - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Reliability-based optimization (RBO) offers the possibility of finding the best design for a
system according to a prescribed criterion while explicitly taking into account the effects of …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient reliability analysis of complex systems in consideration of imprecision

J Salomon, N Winnewisser, P Wei, M Broggi… - Reliability Engineering & …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, the reliability of complex systems under consideration of imprecision is
addressed. By joining two methods coming from different fields, namely, structural reliability …