{"title":"Partial ring simulation: An efficient method identifying importance domain for structural reliability analysis","authors":"Yu Leng , Chao-Huang Cai , Zhao-Hui Lu","doi":"10.1016/j.strusafe.2025.102648","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Failure probability of a structure is dominated by the importance domain whose extent is much smaller than the whole random variable space. Once the importance domain is identified, the failure probability can be evaluated efficiently through compressing the sampling space into the importance domain. Recently, ring simulation has attempted to identify the importance interval in one dimension (i.e., the radius). To obtain a complete importance domain in all dimensions, a new simulation method, called “partial ring simulation”, is proposed for the efficient estimation of the failure probability. In the proposed method, the importance domain, consisting of importance radius and importance direction, is adaptively identified by a stepwise strategy utilizing the information from prior steps. For generating samples located in the importance domain, a Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling is then constructed. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated by four examples involving parallel, series, and nonlinear limit state functions, small failure probabilities, and high-dimensional problems. The results indicate that the proposed method greatly improves the computational efficiency of ring simulation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":21978,"journal":{"name":"Structural Safety","volume":"118 ","pages":"Article 102648"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3000,"publicationDate":"2025-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Structural Safety","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167473025000761","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, CIVIL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Failure probability of a structure is dominated by the importance domain whose extent is much smaller than the whole random variable space. Once the importance domain is identified, the failure probability can be evaluated efficiently through compressing the sampling space into the importance domain. Recently, ring simulation has attempted to identify the importance interval in one dimension (i.e., the radius). To obtain a complete importance domain in all dimensions, a new simulation method, called “partial ring simulation”, is proposed for the efficient estimation of the failure probability. In the proposed method, the importance domain, consisting of importance radius and importance direction, is adaptively identified by a stepwise strategy utilizing the information from prior steps. For generating samples located in the importance domain, a Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling is then constructed. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated by four examples involving parallel, series, and nonlinear limit state functions, small failure probabilities, and high-dimensional problems. The results indicate that the proposed method greatly improves the computational efficiency of ring simulation.
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Structural Safety is an international journal devoted to integrated risk assessment for a wide range of constructed facilities such as buildings, bridges, earth structures, offshore facilities, dams, lifelines and nuclear structural systems. Its purpose is to foster communication about risk and reliability among technical disciplines involved in design and construction, and to enhance the use of risk management in the constructed environment