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Time-Dependent Reliability Methodologies With Saddlepoint Approximation, Zhangli Hu
Time-Dependent Reliability Methodologies With Saddlepoint Approximation, Zhangli Hu
Doctoral Dissertations
"Engineers always encounter time-dependent uncertainties that ubiquitously exist, such as the random deterioration of material properties and time-variant loads. Therefore the reliability of engineering systems becomes time-dependent. It is crucial to predict the time-dependent reliability in the design stage, given possible catastrophic consequences of a failure. Although extensive research has been conducted on reliability analysis, estimating the reliability accurately and efficiently is still challenging. The objective of this work is to develop accurate and efficient reliability methodologies for engineering design. The basic idea is the integration of traditional reliability methods with saddlepoint approximation (SPA), which can accurately approximate the tail …
Efficient Time-Dependent System Reliability Analysis, Zhifu Zhu
Efficient Time-Dependent System Reliability Analysis, Zhifu Zhu
Doctoral Dissertations
"Engineering systems are usually subjected to time-variant loads and operate under time-dependent uncertainty; system performances are therefore time-dependent. Accurate and efficient estimate of system reliability is crucial for decision makings on system design, lifetime cost estimate, maintenance strategy, etc. Although significant progresses have been made in time-independent reliability analysis for components and systems, time-dependent system reliability methodologies are still limited. This dissertation is motivated by the need of accurate and effective reliability prediction for engineering systems under time-dependent uncertainty. Based on the classic First and Second Order Reliability Method (FORM and SORM), a system reliability method is developed for multidisciplinary …
The Evaluation Of Sequential Optimization And Reliability Analysis, Guannan Liu
The Evaluation Of Sequential Optimization And Reliability Analysis, Guannan Liu
Masters Theses
"Sequential Optimization and Reliability Assessment (SORA) has been used for more than one decade for reliability-based design (RBD), but comprehensive theoretical studies on its performance have not been conducted. Further investigations on its performance are still needed. The objective of this thesis is to evaluate the performance of SORA for various testing problems. The performance of SORA evaluated in this thesis includes (1) accuracy, (2) efficiency, and (3) convergence behavior or robustness with numerical testing problems. SORA is evaluated with comparison with other major RBD methodologies. The testing problems are in different scales (numbers of design variables, random variables, and …