Partial ring simulation: An efficient method identifying importance domain for structural reliability analysis

IF 6.3 1区 工程技术 Q1 ENGINEERING, CIVIL
Yu Leng , Chao-Huang Cai , Zhao-Hui Lu
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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.
部分环模拟:结构可靠性分析重要域识别的有效方法
结构的失效概率由重要域决定,其范围远小于整个随机变量空间。一旦确定了重要域,通过将采样空间压缩到重要域,可以有效地评估故障概率。最近,环形模拟试图在一个维度(即半径)上确定重要区间。为了获得各维的完整重要域,提出了一种新的模拟方法——“部分环模拟”,以有效地估计失效概率。在该方法中,由重要半径和重要方向组成的重要域通过逐步识别策略自适应地识别出来。为了生成位于重要域中的样本,构造了马尔可夫链蒙特卡罗采样。通过并行、串联和非线性极限状态函数、小失效概率和高维问题的四个算例验证了该方法的有效性。结果表明,该方法大大提高了环仿真的计算效率。
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Structural Safety
Structural Safety 工程技术-工程:土木
CiteScore
11.30
自引率
8.60%
发文量
67
审稿时长
53 days
期刊介绍: 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
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