Overview of Structural Reliability Analysis Methods — Part III : Global Reliability Methods

Structural Reliability Methods

Decomposition methods for structural reliability analysis

A new class of computational methods, referred to as decomposition methods, has been developed for predicting failure probability of structural and mechanical systems subject to random loads, material properties, and geometry. The methods involve a novel function decomposition that facilitates univariate and bivariate approximations of a general multivariate function, response surface generatio...

SAFERELNET Task 5 . 1 Overview reliability methods

Reliability sensitivity analysis with Monte Carlo methods

In many practical applications of structural reliability analysis, one is interested in knowing the sensitivity of the probability of failure to design parameters that enter the definition of the limit-state function. This information is required for example in reliability-based design optimization. Parameter sensitivities are obtained by FORM/SORM, in terms of the sensitivity of the respective...

Mathematical Methods in Reliability

Natural constructions of hazard and intensity functions Prof. Dave Percy (Salford) We investigate the reliability distributions for variants of standard hazard functions that model periodicity, impulses, amplifications, damping, orders and extrema. We also consider parallel-series system configurations and the resulting implications for intensity functions of complex systems, concluding with a ...