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Reliability-Based Evaluations for Non-metallic Reinforced Concrete Structural Members
Modern technological and research developments of textile-reinforced concrete (TRC) have led to extensive applications in building and civil... -
Structural deformation monitoring and service reliability analysis for slab track in plateau areas
How to effectively monitor the structural condition of slab track and determine its service reliability is a key problem to be solved in the...
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Structural global reliability assessment considering nonlinear correlation effects by enhanced high-order moment method
The global reliability analysis of complex engineering structures considering the correlations between basic random variables remains a challenge,...
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Reliability-based structural optimization using adaptive neural network multisphere importance sampling
An innovative adaptive neural network multisphere importance sampling (ANNM-IS) is proposed and integrated with symbiotic organism search (SOS) to...
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An Object-Oriented Computer Program for Structural Reliability Analysis (BI): Components and Methods
Computers have revolutionized engineering calculations in recent years. Some fields in engineering owe their development to the emergence of powerful...
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Effect of structural repairs on the load rating and reliability of a prestressed concrete bridge
Prestressed girders often deteriorate over time due to environmental and man-made stressors, lowering the strength and serviceability of bridge...
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Adaptive kriging model-based structural reliability analysis under interval uncertainty with incomplete data
Uncertainty of quantitative models of input variables and computational model could certainly cause the uncertainties of structural response and...
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A new interpretation on structural reliability updating with adaptive batch sampling-based subset simulation
Reliability analysis aims at quantitatively assessing the risks of structures and infrastructure systems considering various sources of aleatory or...
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An enhanced finite step length method for structural reliability analysis and reliability-based design optimization
The finite step length (FSL) method is extensively used for structural reliability analysis due to its robustness and efficiency compared with...
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Reliability based topology optimization of thermoelastic structures using bi-directional evolutionary structural optimization method
The aim of this paper is to propose a novel computational technique of applying reliability-based design to thermoelastic structural topology...
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Time-Dependent Reliability Analysis of Degrading Structural Elements Using Stochastic FE and LSTM Learning
Time-dependent reliability assessment of complex structural systems that require finite element (FE) simulation to evaluate the limit state function... -
An Armijo-based hybrid step length release first order reliability method based on chaos control for structural reliability analysis
In structural reliability analysis, the HL-RF method may not converge in some nonlinear cases. The chaos control based first-order second-moment...
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A new structural reliability analysis method under non-parameterized probability box variables
The probability box (P-box) model is an effective quantification tool that can deal with aleatory and epistemic uncertainties and can generally be...
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Assessing the Probabilistic Assumptions Behind Structural Reliability via Simulation
Current design standards for steel structures in North America use a structural reliability model that employs first-order probability methods. This... -
Structural reliability updating using experimental data
Conventional reliability analysis requires the information from an existing structure, such as a mechanical model and random distributed inputs. In...
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A new radial basis function active learning method based on distance constraint for structural reliability analysis
Strongly nonlinear structural systems exhibit high computational errors when dependability is calculated using conventional approaches such as the...
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Reliability Requirements
Reliability requirements are the basis for reliability design, analysis, test, and verification. Reliability requirements can be divided into... -
Structural Safety
In 1963 my Master’s Thesis at M.I.T was “Structural Safety and Reliability”. It follows that several of the topics covered in the Thesis (3) are also... -
Reliability Analysis
Reliability analysis is a technical work that uses various methods to identify the critical characteristics and weaknesses of products from different... -
Structural Reliability Assessment
This chapter discusses the method and application in practical engineering of structural reliability assessment. Reliability theory is the basis for...