A unified analysis framework of static and dynamic structural reliabilities based on direct probability integral method

G Chen, D Yang - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2021 - Elsevier
Generally, the static and dynamic reliabilities of structures are addressed separately in the
existing methods except the computationally expensive stochastic sampling-based …

Parallel adaptive Bayesian quadrature for rare event estimation

C Dang, P Wei, MGR Faes, MA Valdebenito… - Reliability Engineering & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Various numerical methods have been extensively studied and used for reliability analysis
over the past several decades. However, how to understand the effect of numerical …

An efficient and versatile Kriging-based active learning method for structural reliability analysis

J Wang, G Xu, P Yuan, Y Li, A Kareem - Reliability Engineering & System …, 2024 - Elsevier
In structural reliability analysis, the development of an efficient and versatile active learning
method applicable to problems of varying complexities remains a challenging task. The …

Consistency evaluation and cluster analysis for lithium-ion battery pack in electric vehicles

J Tian, Y Wang, C Liu, Z Chen - Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Consistency is an essential factor affecting the operation of lithium-ion battery packs. Pack
consistency evaluation is of considerable significance to the usage of batteries. Many …

Globally-evolving-based generalized density evolution equation for nonlinear systems involving randomness from both system parameters and excitations

JB Chen, MZ Lyu - Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
It has long been one of the main challenges in science and engineering to capture the
probabilistic response of high-dimensional nonlinear stochastic dynamic systems involving …

A maximum entropy method using fractional moments and deep learning for geotechnical reliability analysis

ZZ Wang, SH Goh - Acta Geotechnica, 2022 - Springer
The spatial variability of the properties of natural soils is one of the major sources of
uncertainties that can influence the performance of geotechnical structures. The direct Monte …

First-passage probability estimation of high-dimensional nonlinear stochastic dynamic systems by a fractional moments-based mixture distribution approach

C Ding, C Dang, MA Valdebenito, MGR Faes… - … Systems and Signal …, 2023 - Elsevier
First-passage probability estimation of high-dimensional nonlinear stochastic dynamic
systems is a significant task to be solved in many science and engineering fields, but …

A multi-criteria decision-making framework for sustainable supplier selection in the circular economy and Industry 4.0 era

Z Xie, G Tian, Y Tao - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Supplier selection is a difficult and important issue in sustainable supply chain management.
This research proposes a managerial framework based on Industry 4.0, a plan for evaluating …

A single-loop time-variant reliability evaluation via a decoupling strategy and probability distribution reconstruction

Y Zhang, J Xu, M Beer - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, a single-loop approach for time-variant reliability evaluation is proposed based
on a decoupling strategy and probability distribution reconstruction. The most attractive …

Stochastic analysis of structures under limited observations using kernel density estimation and arbitrary polynomial chaos expansion

R Zhang, H Dai - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the past decades there has been considerable interest among the scientific community
in modeling random system inputs from limited observations and propagating the system …