The present work reviews the implementation of adaptive metamodeling for reliability
analysis with emphasis in four main types of metamodels: response surfaces, polynomial …

The main task of structural reliability analysis is to estimate failure probability of a studied
structure taking randomness of input variables into account. To consider structural behavior …

Generally, the static and dynamic reliabilities of structures are addressed separately in the
existing methods except the computationally expensive stochastic sampling-based …

Owing to its time-consuming computation of complex structural responses, structural
reliability analysis is still one of the challenging tasks. In this work, based on the FORM, the …

Response surface method is a convenient tool to assess reliability for a wide range of
structural mechanical problems. More specifically, adaptive schemes which consist in …

In this paper, according to the Kriging based reliability analysis method, an efficient
sequential sampling method combined with radial basis function is proposed to reduce the …

In the scope of infrastructure risk assessment, structural reliability analysis leads to a
challenging problem in order to deal with conflicting objectives: accurate estimation of failure …

In common response surface method (RSM) for structural reliability analysis, performances
of several experimental points must be evaluated via finite element analysis. The number of …

Applications of the reliability-based method to stability evaluation of tunnel structures have
become an ever-increasing concern over recent years. One critical challenge in conducting …

An important challenge in structural reliability is to minimize the number of calls to the
numerical models, so the current structural reliability analysis of multidimensional variable …