Journal
RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY
Volume 150, Issue -, Pages 210-221Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2016.01.023
Keywords
Reliability assessment; Rare events; Adaptive surrogate models; Support vector machines; Regression; Span bound approximation; Hyperparameter selection
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Assessing rare event probabilities still suffers from its computational cost despite some available methods widely accepted by researchers and engineers. For low to moderately high dimensional problems and under the assumption of a smooth limit-state function, adaptive strategies based on surrogate models represent interesting alternative solutions. This paper presents such an adaptive method based on support vector machine surrogates used in regression. The key idea is to iteratively construct surrogates which quickly explore the safe domain and focus on the limit-state surface in its final stage. Highly accurate surrogates are constructed at each iteration by minimizing an estimation of the leave one-out error with the cross-entropy method. Additional training points are generated with the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm modified by Au and Beck and a local kernel regression is made over a subset of the known data. The efficiency of the method is tested on examples featuring various challenges: a highly curved limit-state surface at a single most probable failure point, a smooth high dimensional limit-state surface and a parallel system. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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