Reliability analysis plays a critical role in the design optimization, operation, and
maintenance of tunnel structures. While classical mechanism models have been …

To improve the computational efficiency and accuracy of dynamic multi-component system
reliability analysis involving complex characteristics like dynamic traits, high-nonlinearity …

Adaptive Kriging modelling technique is an effective tool to reduce the computational burden
for time-variant reliability-based design optimization (TRBDO) significantly. However, the …

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 …

The performance of complex engineering systems often changes over time and space,
potentially leading to multiple failure modes. Such time and space variance presents a …

This contribution proposes an approach for the assessment of the failure probability
associated with a particular class of series systems. The type of systems considered involves …

Time-variant reliability analysis (TRA) has drawn tremendous interest of engineers
attributable to its ability in assessing the probability that a system performs its intended …

This paper proposes a novel envelope-function-based algorithm for time-dependent
reliability analysis considering random and interval uncertainties. First, the envelope …

A novel sampling approach, called adaptive importance sampling (AIS), is proposed to
efficiently perform time-variant reliability analysis. In practice, structures are generally …

An efficient sampling approach 'Adaptive Combined Line Sampling'is proposed for
evaluating the 'time-variant failure probability function'(TFPF) of structures. Line Sampling is …