...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...

... e-mail:  qingjin.peng@umanitoba.ca 07 05 2020 23 09 2020 23 04 2021 design of experiment Kriging model learning function spectral clustering structural reliability Reliability analysis evaluates the failure probability of structures considering random variables...

...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...

.... 16 06 2017 24 02 2018 Mechanical Random Reliability Robustness Structural reliability Uncertainty This work examines the variability of predicted responses when multiple stress–strain (s-s) curves reflecting variability from replicate material tests are propagated through...

... Structural reliability Uncertainty Reliability is the ability that a component or system performs its intended function in routine circumstances for a given period of time [ 1 ]. For a system, we are interested in not only the reliability of its components, but also the system reliability. For many...

... 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...

..., 2016; final manuscript received December 10, 2016; published online June 12, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Mario Di Paola. 17 06 2016 10 12 2016 Probability Random Reliability Reliability based design Safety Structural reliability There is an increasing amount of research...

... Structural reliability Structures Uncertainty In this section, we pursue the aim of building up the generalization of fractional calculus to interval analysis. As it will be shown in this section, this task is not trivial, as uncertainty in the fractional operator can affect either the function...

... 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...

... 2016 5 5 2016 Aerospace Computational reliability methods Impact Reliability based design Safety Structural reliability Fiber-reinforced composite materials are generally used in a wide range of applications such as military, aerospace, automobiles, and body armors due...

... 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...

... of the peak factor of order p Manuscript received September 23, 2014; final manuscript received March 6, 2015; published online November 20, 2015. Assoc. Editor: Michael Beer. 23 9 2014 6 3 2015 27 04 2015 Computational reliability methods Structural reliability...

.... 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 . [35] Ayyub , B. M. , 1998 , Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis in Civil Engineering , CRC Press LLC , Boca...

...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...

... May 26, 2014; final manuscript received October 10, 2014; published online October 2, 2015. Assoc. Editor: Alba Sofi. 26 5 2014 10 10 2014 27 04 2015 02 10 2015 Mechanical Structural reliability The major task of RA is to predict reliability in the design stage...

... certain conditions, one alternative to reduce the computational burden is use of the Neumann series. Computational reliability methods Structural reliability In linear stochastic mechanics problems, the numerical solution of a differential equation is replaced by the solution of a linear...

... , John Wiley & Sons , Hoboken, NJ . [2] Bucher , C. , 2011 , Simulation Methods in Structural Reliability , (Marine Technology and Engineering, Vol.  2 ), Taylor and Francis , Boca Raton, FL , pp.  1071 – 1086 . [3] Au , S.-K. , Ching , J. , and Beck , J. L. , 2007...