Journal
RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY
Volume 158, Issue -, Pages 50-57Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2016.10.013
Keywords
Global sensitivity analysis; PCFE; Uncertainty analysis; Structural mechanics
Funding
- CSIR [22(0712)/16/EMR-II]
- MHRD, Government of India
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Distribution based sensitivity analysis (DSA) computes sensitivity of the input random variables with respect to the change in distribution of output response. Although DSA is widely appreciated as the best tool for sensitivity analysis, the computational issue associated with this method prohibits its use for complex structures involving costly finite element analysis. For addressing this issue, this paper presents a method that couples polynomial correlated function expansion (PCFE) with DSA. PCFE is a fully equivalent operational model which integrates the concepts of analysis of variance decomposition, extended bases and homotopy algorithm. By integrating PCFE into DSA, it is possible to considerably alleviate the computational burden. Three examples are presented to demonstrate the performance of the proposed approach for sensitivity analysis. For all the problems, proposed approach yields excellent results with significantly reduced computational effort. The results obtained, to some extent, indicate that proposed approach can be utilized for sensitivity analysis of large scale structures.
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