Small failure probability: principles, progress and perspectives

I Lee, U Lee, P Ramu, D Yadav, G Bayrak… - Structural and …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Design of structural and multidisciplinary systems under uncertainties requires
estimation of their reliability or equivalently the probability of failure under the given …

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 …

Structural reliability analysis: A Bayesian perspective

C Dang, MA Valdebenito, MGR Faes, P Wei, M Beer - Structural Safety, 2022 - Elsevier
Numerical methods play a dominant role in structural reliability analysis, and the goal has
long been to produce a failure probability estimate with a desired level of accuracy using a …

Parallel Bayesian probabilistic integration for structural reliability analysis with small failure probabilities

Z Hu, C Dang, L Wang, M Beer - Structural Safety, 2024 - Elsevier
Bayesian active learning methods have emerged for structural reliability analysis and shown
more attractive features than existing active learning methods. However, it remains a …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] Partially Bayesian active learning cubature for structural reliability analysis with extremely small failure probabilities

C Dang, MGR Faes, MA Valdebenito, P Wei… - Computer Methods in …, 2024 - Elsevier
The Bayesian failure probability inference (BFPI) framework provides a well-established
Bayesian approach to quantifying our epistemic uncertainty about the failure probability …

Bayesian probabilistic propagation of hybrid uncertainties: Estimation of response expectation function, its variable importance and bounds

C Dang, P Wei, MGR Faes, M Beer - Computers & Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
Uncertainties existing in physical and engineering systems can be characterized by different
kinds of mathematical models according to their respective features. However, efficient …

Bayesian reinforcement learning reliability analysis

T Zhou, T Guo, C Dang, M Beer - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics …, 2024 - Elsevier
A Bayesian reinforcement learning reliability method that combines Bayesian inference for
the failure probability estimation and reinforcement learning-guided sequential experimental …

[HTML][HTML] Semi-Bayesian active learning quadrature for estimating extremely low failure probabilities

C Dang, M Beer - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2024 - Elsevier
The Bayesian failure probability inference (BFPI) framework provides a sound basis for
developing new Bayesian active learning reliability analysis methods. However, it is still …

An improved adaptive Kriging model for importance sampling reliability and reliability global sensitivity analysis

DW Jia, ZY Wu - Structural Safety, 2024 - Elsevier
An improved adaptive Kriging model for importance sampling (IS) reliability and reliability
global sensitivity analysis is proposed by introducing the IS density function into learning …