TIME-DEPENDENT RELIABILITY ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS : Reliability function of structural systems

Reliability Analysis of Structural Systems based on Universal Generating Function

As an important tool for performance assessment in multi-state systems, the universal generating function approach is introduced and developed aiming at strength reliability analysis of structural systems. Static reliability models of statically determinate and statically indeterminate systems are built by constructing special generating functions, which are used to describe probability distrib...

Generating function approach to reliability analysis of structural systems

The generating function approach is an important tool for performance assessment in multi-state systems. Aiming at strength reliability analysis of structural systems, generating function approach is introduced and developed. Static reliability models of statically determinate, indeterminate systems and fatigue reliability models are built by constructing special generating functions, which are...

Reliability-Based Optimization of structural systems

Gamma process model for time-dependent structural reliability analysis

The paper presents a stochastic gamma process model to account for both sampling and temporal variability associated with a deterioration process that increases risk of failure of an aging structure. The proposed method is more versatile than the random-variable deterioration rate model commonly used in the structural reliability literature. The reason being that the random rate model cannot ca...

Reliability sensitivity analysis for structural systems in interval probability form

Reliability sensitivity analysis is used to find the rate of change in the probability of failure (or reliability) due to the changes in distribution parameters such as the means and standard deviations. Most of the existing reliability sensitivity analysis methods assume that all the probabilities and distribution parameters are precisely known. That is, every statistical parameter involved is...