...Abraham Nispel; Stephen Ekwaro-Osire; João Paulo Dias; Americo Cunha, Jr. This study aims to address the question: can the structural reliability of an offshore wind turbine (OWT) under fatigue loading conditions be predicted more consistently? To respond to that question this study addresses...

... on probability theory and mathematical statistics. As an important method of structural reliability analysis, the MCS method can solve randomness and deterministic problems. where (11) r ( x ) = [ R ( x 1 , x ; θ ′ ) , … , R ( x N , x ; θ ′ ) ] (12) u...

...Wellison José de Santana Gomes Surrogate models are efficient tools which have been successfully applied in structural reliability analysis, as an attempt to keep the computational costs acceptable. Among the surrogate models available in the literature, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been...

...Wellison José de Santana Gomes Structural reliability theory has been applied to many engineering problems in the last decades, with the primary objective of quantifying the safety of such structures. Although in some cases approximated methods may be used, many times the only alternatives...

... or reproduce the published form of this paper, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. 16 06 2017 24 02 2018 Mechanical Random Reliability Robustness Structural reliability Uncertainty This work examines the variability...

... manuscript received October 18, 2017; published online December 20, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Sankaran Mahadevan. 28 01 2016 18 10 2017 Reliability Structural reliability Uncertainty Reliability is the ability that a component or system performs its intended function in routine...

... online December 5, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Chimba Mkandawire. 05 04 2017 14 08 2017 Collision Crash Failure Impact Mechanical Performance Rollover Safety Structural reliability Structures Transportation Annually, there are 7600 ejections through a door opening during...

... of interval stiffness or interval fractional damping, respectively. Mechanical Probability Random Structural reliability Structures Uncertainty It is clear that combining the results of this section with the previous one, it is possible to express uncertainties in both the fractional order...

...-mail:  angela.riccardello@unikore.it Probability Random Reliability Reliability based design Safety Structural reliability Valeria Artale Engineering and Architecture Faculty, University of Enna Kore, via delle Olimpiadi, Enna 94100, Italy e-mail: valeria.artale@unikore.it Giacomo Navarra1 Engineering...

... considered that they are a whole made of different parts, and that some of these individual parts or structures are often crucial to assure the proper operation of the entire network. Moreover, each of these structures can be considered a complex system by itself: structural reliability theory should be thus...

.... 1 Corresponding authors. Manuscript received January 28, 2016; final manuscript received September 6, 2016; published online November 21, 2016. Assoc. Editor: Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou. 28 1 2016 6 9 2016 6 9 2016 Collapse Explosion Petroleum Structural reliability...

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... analysis Structural reliability Structures For engineering systems, especially metallic structures, corrosion has been recognized as one of the most important degradation mechanisms that affect the long-term reliability and integrity [ 1 ]. Different corrosion environments could cause several...

... uncertain properties α i I . In the context of structural reliability analysis, a meaningful parameter, helpful for decision making, is the response level which has a specified probability, p , of not being exceeded during a specified time interval [ 11 ]. Such a quantity...

... , July 6–9. [33] Bulleit , W. M. , 2008 , “ Uncertainty in Structural Engineering ,” Pract. Period. Struct. Des. Constr., ASCE , 13 ( 1 ), pp.  24 – 30 . [34] Melchers , R. E. , 1999 , Structural Reliability Analysis and Prediction , John Wiley and Sons , West Sussex, England...

...Umberto Alibrandi; C. G. Koh This paper presents a novel procedure based on first-order reliability method (FORM) for structural reliability analysis in the presence of random parameters and interval uncertain parameters. In the proposed formulation, the hybrid problem is reduced to standard...

... ,” Comput. Struct. , 85 ( 5 ), pp. 320 – 329 . 10.1016/j.compstruc.2006.10.012 [15] Luo , Y. , Kang , Z. , and Li , A. , 2009 , “ Structural Reliability Assessment Based on Probability and Convex Set Mixed Model ,” Comput. Struct. , 87 ( 21 ), pp. 1408 – 1415 . 10.1016/j.compstruc...

... July 23, 2014; final manuscript received February 2, 2015; published online April 20, 2015. Assoc. Editor: Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou. 23 7 2014 2 2 2015 05 02 2015 20 04 2015 Computational reliability methods Structural reliability The last few decades have...

... from China Scholarship Council. References [1] Rubinstein , R. Y. , and Kroese , D. P. , 2007 , Simulation and the Monte Carlo Method , John Wiley & Sons , Hoboken, NJ . [2] Bucher , C. , 2011 , Simulation Methods in Structural Reliability , (Marine Technology...