A unified formalism of the GE-GDEE for generic continuous responses and first-passage reliability analysis of multi-dimensional nonlinear systems subjected to non …

MZ Lyu, JB Chen - Structural Safety, 2022 - Elsevier
The stochastic response analysis and first-passage reliability evaluation of multi-
dimensional nonlinear systems subjected to non-white-noise engineering dynamic …

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 …

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 …

Structural reliability analysis by line sampling: A Bayesian active learning treatment

C Dang, MA Valdebenito, MGR Faes, J Song, P Wei… - Structural Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
Line sampling has been demonstrated to be a promising simulation method for structural
reliability analysis, especially for assessing small failure probabilities. However, its practical …

A density extrapolation approach to estimate failure probabilities

G Jia, A Tabandeh, P Gardoni - Structural Safety, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a novel approach called the Density Extrapolation Approach (DEA) for
efficient reliability analysis. It builds on the Subset Simulation (SS) approach and integrates …

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 …

Adaptive structural reliability analysis method based on confidence interval squeezing

Z Chen, G Li, J He, Z Yang, J Wang - Reliability Engineering & System …, 2022 - Elsevier
Kriging-based adaptive structural reliability analysis methods can replace the structural
performance function and perform reliability analysis accurately and efficiently by using …

Dynamic pruning-based Bayesian support vector regression for reliability analysis

S Yu, Y Ren, X Wu, P Guo, Y Li - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2024 - Elsevier
Adaptive surrogate-based reliability analysis methods have garnered significant attention
due to their potential to enhance computational efficiency in accurately estimating failure …

Relaxation-based importance sampling for structural reliability analysis

J Xian, Z Wang - Structural Safety, 2024 - Elsevier
This study presents an importance sampling formulation based on adaptively relaxing
parameters from the indicator function and/or the probability density function. The …

A conditional extreme value distribution method for dynamic reliability analysis of stochastic structures

YY Weng, XY Zhang, ZH Lu, YG Zhao - Structural Safety, 2024 - Elsevier
An efficient post-processing simulation method is proposed to estimate small failure
probabilities of stochastic dynamic structures involving the inherent randomness of structural …