A new unequal-weighted sampling method for efficient reliability analysis

被引：38
作者：
Xu, Jun [1 ,2 ]
Kong, Fan [3 ]
机构：
[1] Hunan Univ, Coll Civil Engn, Dept Struct Engn, Changsha 410082, Hunan, Peoples R China
[2] Hunan Prov Key Lab Damage Diag Engn Struct, Changsha 410082, Hunan, Peoples R China
[3] Wuhan Univ Technol, Sch Civil Engn & Architecture, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, Peoples R China
来源：
RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY | 2018年 / 172卷
基金：
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词：
Failure probability; Random-variate space; Voronoi cell; Kernel density estimation; Optimal bandwidth; MONTE-CARLO-SIMULATION; DIMENSIONAL MODEL REPRESENTATION; NONLINEAR STOCHASTIC STRUCTURES; SMALL FAILURE PROBABILITIES; STRUCTURAL DYNAMIC-SYSTEMS; DENSITY EVOLUTION ANALYSIS; NEURAL-NETWORKS; SENSITIVITY-ANALYSIS; BENCHMARK PROBLEMS; SUBSET SIMULATION;
D O I：
10.1016/j.ress.2017.12.007
中图分类号：
T [工业技术];
学科分类号：
08 ;
摘要：
In this paper, a new method for efficient reliability analysis is proposed. The proposed method utilizes the Voronoi cells to partition the random-variate space into several sub-spaces and the kernel density estimation to approximate the failure probability in each sub-space. The optimal bandwidth for the kernel is also suggested. Then, the failure probability can be conveniently evaluated by a weighted summation over each sub-space (sampling point). Since the weight for each sub-space (sampling point) is not identical, this method is referred to as the unequal-weighted sampling method for reliability analysis. Numerical implementation procedure of the proposed method is also outlined. Several numerical examples are investigated to verify the proposed method, where the results are compared with those of Monte Carlo simulation and subset simulation methods. It is demonstrated that the proposed method can achieve the tradeoff of accuracy and efficiency for reliability analysis. Problems to be further studied are also pointed out. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码：94 / 102
页数：9
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