Structural Reliability Assessment by Local Approximation of Limit State Functions Using Adaptive Markov Chain Simulation and Support Vector Regression

Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 676-686

  Dai, Hongzhe ^a   Zhang, Hao ^b   Wang, Wei ^a   Xue, Guofeng ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIMIT STATE FUNCTIONS; LOCAL APPROXIMATION; LOCAL APPROXIMATION METHODS; MARKOV CHAIN SIMULATION; STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT; SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION (SVR); SURROGATE MODEL;

APPROXIMATION THEORY;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MARKOV CHAIN; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; SURROGATE METHOD; VECTOR AUTOREGRESSION;

EID: 84865792748     PISSN: 10939687     EISSN: 14678667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8667.2012.00767.x     Document Type: Article

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