Assessing small failure probabilities by combined subset simulation and Support Vector Machines

Structural Safety

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 343-353

  Bourinet, J M ^a   Deheeger, F ^a,b   Lemaire, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^b now at Phimeca Engineering   (France)

Author keywords

Active learning; Reliability; Subset simulation; Support Vector Machine

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LEARNING; DESIGN POINTS; FAILURE DOMAINS; FAILURE PROBABILITY; ITS EFFICIENCIES; NON-SMOOTH; SERIES SYSTEM; SIMULATION METHODS; STRUCTURAL MODELS; STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY; SUBSET SIMULATION; SUITABLE SOLUTIONS; SUPPORT VECTOR; VIABLE SOLUTIONS;

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; MODEL STRUCTURES; RANDOM VARIABLES; RELIABILITY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 80555122965     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2011.06.001     Document Type: Article

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