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STRUCTURAL SAFETY
Volume 52, Issue -, Pages 161-169Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2014.02.003
Keywords
Adaptive Metropolis; Importance sampling; Markov chain simulation; Reliability; Wavelet
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [10902028]
- Australian Research Council [DP110104263]
- International Program Development Fund from the University of Sydney
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This paper presents a new importance sampling method for efficient structural reliability assessment. The method utilizes the adaptive Markov chain simulation to generate samples that can adaptively populate the important region. The importance sampling density is then constructed using nonparametric wavelet density estimation technique. This approach takes advantage of the attractive properties of the Daubechies' wavelet family (e.g., localization, various degrees of smoothness, and fast implementation) to provide good density estimations. Four examples including a finite element-based reliability analysis are given to demonstrate the proposed method. Comparisons of the new method and the classical kernel-based importance sampling are made. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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