Assessment of various seismic fragility analysis approaches for structures excited by non-stationary stochastic ground motions

XY Cao, DC Feng, Y Li - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2023 - Elsevier
A probabilistic assessment is performed using different seismic fragility analysis approaches
for structures under non-stationary stochastic ground motions. Four commonly used …

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 …

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 …

Multi-output multi-physics-informed neural network for learning dimension-reduced probability density evolution equation with unknown spatio-temporal-dependent …

TT Hao, WJ Yan, JB Chen, TT Sun, KV Yuen - Mechanical Systems and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Dimension-Reduced Probability Density Evolution Equation (DR-PDEE) offers
a promising approach for evaluating probability density evolution in stochastic dynamical …

Efficient seismic fragility analysis of structures from dynamic reliability perspective

J Xu, L Liao, Y Zhang, D Wang - Engineering Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
Seismic fragility analysis of structures quantitatively describes the relationship between the
failure probabilities of structures and ground motion Intensity Measures (IMs). Generally, two …

Reliability analysis of discrete-state performance functions via adaptive sequential sampling with detection of failure surfaces

M Vořechovský - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The paper presents a new efficient and robust method for rare event probability estimation
for computational models of an engineering product or a process returning categorical …

Seismic reliability evaluation of bridges under spatially varying ground motions using a four-parameter distribution

ZQ Chen, SX Zheng, ZH Ding, J Zhang, YJ Tai - Engineering Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
Large-span bridges are often subjected to spatially varying ground motion (SVGM)
excitations. Meanwhile, bridge structures and ground motion excitations generally present a …

Computational modeling of near-fault earthquake-induced landslides considering stochastic ground motions and spatially varying soil

R Wang, G Chen, Y Liu, M Beer - Engineering Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
Landslides represent a large-deformation process influenced by various factors of
uncertainty, such as types of ground motion (GM), randomness of GMs, and spatial …

[HTML][HTML] System dynamic reliability evaluation of multiple failure modes of earth dams subjected to strong earthquake excitation

M Xiong, W Wang, Y Huang - Soils and Foundations, 2023 - Elsevier
An earth dam in service is a complex system that has different dynamic failure modes under
different ground motion excitations with a certain correlation between the different failure …

Friction tuned mass dampers in seismic-excited high-rise buildings with SSI effects: A reliability assessment

S Etedali, M Akbari, M Seifi - Journal of Earthquake and Tsunami, 2023 - World Scientific
The probabilistic performance of the seismic-excited structures supplemented with passive
control devices has recently received attention. Friction tuned mass damper (FTMD) devise …