Purpose The purpose of this paper is to briefly summarize and review the theories and
methods of complex structures' dynamic reliability. Complex structures are usually …

Time-variant reliability analysis (TRA) has attracted tremendous interest for evaluating
product reliability in full life cycle. Discretization of stochastic process is considered one of …

Time-dependent reliability-based design optimization (TRBDO) has attracted intensive
research attentions in recent years by virtue of its unique ability to allow consideration of …

Time-dependent reliability analysis using surrogate model has drawn much attention for
avoiding the high computational burden. But the surrogate training strategies of existing …

Exploring ultralight sandwich structures with superior load-bearing performance is one of the
important topics in structural optimization. This paper proposes a novel multiscale topology …

The efficiency and robustness of reliability techniques are important in reliability-based
design optimization (RBDO). Commonly, advanced mean value (AMV) is utilized in reliability …

This study aims to develop a rotational sparse grid (R-SPGR) method for statistical moment
evaluation and structural reliability analysis with enhanced accuracy and efficiency. The …

Time-dependent reliability analysis with high dimensional outputs is a challenge because of
'curse of dimensionality'and accurate reliability estimation over entire time interval is …

Adaptive Kriging surrogate model is becoming an effective technique to significantly reduce
the computational cost for time-variant reliability analysis (TRA). But the existing Kriging …

In this paper, a new system reliability-based design optimization (SRBDO) method is
proposed for problems where performance function values are obtained from different …