[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 …

[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 …

Parallel adaptive ensemble of metamodels combined with hypersphere sampling for rare failure events

F Xin, P Wang, Q Wang, L Li, L Cheng, H Lei… - Reliability Engineering & …, 2024 - Elsevier
In practical engineering, especially in aeronautical engineering, the failure probability is
extremely rare due to the incorporation of safety factors in the mechanical design phase …

[HTML][HTML] Application of an active learning method for cumulative fatigue damage assessment of floating wind turbine mooring lines

C Ren, Y Xing, KS Patel - Results in Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Long-term cumulative fatigue damage of mooring lines is crucial for the design of floating
wind turbine structures (FWTs). Although many efforts are carried out for the offshore floating …

An error-based stopping criterion for spherical decomposition-based adaptive Kriging model and rare event estimation

Y Zhang, Y Dong, DM Frangopol - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2024 - Elsevier
Surrogate model-based reliability analysis methods, especially the adaptive Kriging model,
have received increasing attention due to their high accuracy and efficiency for reliability …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient probabilistic slope stability analysis using conditional probability-based weighted low-discrepancy simulation

T Wang, J Ji, X Yin, Y Wang - Computers and Geotechnics, 2024 - Elsevier
Traditional deterministic slope stability analysis frequently neglects the influence of various
uncertainties inherent in soil properties. Recently, probabilistic analysis has seen great …

A meta-heuristic approach for reliability-based design optimization of shell-and-tube heat exchangers

J Jafari-Asl, ODL Montaño, S Mirjalili… - Applied Thermal …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study introduces a new framework for optimizing Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchanger
(STHE) layouts using a reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) approach. The …

Uniform importance sampling with rejection control for structural reliability analysis

C Luo, SP Zhu, Y Lv, H Ma, X Liu… - Computer Methods in …, 2025 - Elsevier
Highly efficient, accurate and robust structural reliability analysis (SRA) method enables a
wide range of engineering applications. In this paper, a novel variance reduction technique …

[HTML][HTML] A dynamic importance function for accidental scenarios generation by RESTART in the computational risk assessment of cyber-physical infrastructures

JP Futalef, F Di Maio, E Zio - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract The Computational Risk Assessment (CRA) of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs)
calls for the analysis of accidental scenarios emerging from the complexities and …