Global sensitivity analysis using polynomial chaos expansions

B Sudret - Reliability engineering & system safety, 2008 - Elsevier
Global sensitivity analysis (SA) aims at quantifying the respective effects of input random
variables (or combinations thereof) onto the variance of the response of a physical or …

The stochastic finite element method: past, present and future

G Stefanou - Computer methods in applied mechanics and …, 2009 - Elsevier
A powerful tool in computational stochastic mechanics is the stochastic finite element
method (SFEM). SFEM is an extension of the classical deterministic FE approach to the …

Static homotopy response analysis of structure with random variables of arbitrary distributions by minimizing stochastic residual error

H Zhang, X **ang, B Huang, Z Wu, H Chen - Computers & Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
The modelling of realistic engineering structures with uncertainties often involves various
probabilistic distribution types, which bring forward higher requirements for the generality of …

Adaptive sparse polynomial chaos expansion based on least angle regression

G Blatman, B Sudret - Journal of computational Physics, 2011 - Elsevier
Polynomial chaos (PC) expansions are used in stochastic finite element analysis to
represent the random model response by a set of coefficients in a suitable (so-called …

[BOEK][B] Structural reliability

M Lemaire - 2013 - books.google.com
Page 1 Structural Reliability Maurice Lemaire in collaboration with Alaa Chateauneuf and
Jean-Claude Mitteau LSTE WILEY Page 2 Contents Foreword Preface Chapter 1. Introduction …

Time-dependent reliability analysis through response surface method

D Zhang, X Han, C Jiang, J Liu… - Journal of …, 2017 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In time-dependent reliability analysis, the first-passage method has been extensively used to
evaluate structural reliability under time-variant service circumstances. To avoid computing …

The PHI2 method: a way to compute time-variant reliability

C Andrieu-Renaud, B Sudret, M Lemaire - Reliability Engineering & System …, 2004 - Elsevier
Time-variant reliability problems appear in the engineering practice when (a) the material
properties of the structure deteriorate in time or (b) random loading modelled as random …

Galerkin methods for linear and nonlinear elliptic stochastic partial differential equations

HG Matthies, A Keese - Computer methods in applied mechanics and …, 2005 - Elsevier
Stationary systems modelled by elliptic partial differential equations—linear as well as
nonlinear—with stochastic coefficients (random fields) are considered. The mathematical …

Numerical methods for the discretization of random fields by means of the Karhunen–Loève expansion

W Betz, I Papaioannou, D Straub - Computer Methods in Applied …, 2014 - Elsevier
The computational efficiency of random field representations with the Karhunen–Loève (KL)
expansion relies on the solution of a Fredholm integral eigenvalue problem. This …

Adaptive sparse polynomial chaos expansions for uncertainty propagation and sensitivity analysis

G Blatman - 2009 - inis.iaea.org
Mathematical models are widely used in many science disciplines, such as physics, biology
and meteorology. They are aimed at better understanding and explaining real-world …