Computation of failure probability via hierarchical clustering

Structural Safety

Volumn 61, Issue , 2016, Pages 67-77

  Yin, Chao ^a   Kareem, Ahsan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Failure probability; Hierarchical clustering; Monte Carlo simulation; Reliability; Subset simulation; Unsupervised learning

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SUPERVISED LEARNING; UNSUPERVISED LEARNING;

FAILURE PROBABILITY; HIER-ARCHICAL CLUSTERING; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; PERFORMANCE FUNCTIONS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS METHOD; STATISTICAL STRUCTURES; SUBSET SIMULATION; SUPERVISED LEARNING APPROACHES;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84966331113     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2015.09.005     Document Type: Article

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