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STRUCTURE AND INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING
Volume 3, Issue 3, Pages 199-213Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/15732470500254618
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uncertainty; reliability; design optimization; software
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Reliability methods are probabilistic algorithms for quantifying the effect of simulation input uncertainties on response metrics of interest. In particular, they compute approximate response function distribution statistics (probability, reliability and response levels) based on specified input random variable probability distributions. In this paper, a number of algorithmic variations are explored for both the forward reliability analysis of computing probabilities for specified response levels (the reliability index approach (RIA)) and the inverse reliability analysis of computing response levels for specified probabilities (the performance measure approach (PMA)). These variations include limit state linearizations, probability integrations, warm starting and optimization algorithm selections. The resulting RIA/PMA reliability algorithms for uncertainty quanti. cation are then employed within bi-level and sequential reliability-based design optimization approaches. Relative performance of these uncertainty quanti. cation and reliability-based design optimization algorithms are presented for a number of computational experiments performed using the DAKOTA/UQ software.
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