Assessment of imprecise reliability using efficient probabilistic reanalysis

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Farizal, ^a   Nikolaidis, Efstratios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RELIABILITY;

DESIGN DECISIONS; EXTREME VALUE STATISTICS; FAILURE PROBABILITY; IMPRECISE RELIABILITIES; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; RELIABILITY DESIGN; UPPER AND LOWER BOUNDS; UPPER AND LOWER PROBABILITIES;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 85072440527     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2007-01-0552     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (23)

1. Ang, A.H.-S., and Tang W.H., (1984). Probability Concepts in Engineering Planning and Design, Volume II-Decision, Risk, and Reliability. John Wiley&Son. New York, NY
2. Au, S. K., and Beck, J. L., (1999). A New Adaptive Importance Sampling Scheme for Reliability Calculations. Structural Safety, Vol. 21, pp. 135-158.
3. Bucklew, J.A., (2004). Introduction to Rare Event Simulation. Springer-Verlag, New York, NY
4. Coolen, F.P.A., (2004). On the use of imprecise probabilities in reliability. Quality and Reliability Engineering International 20: 193-202
5. Gumbel, E.J., (1958). Statistics of Extremes. Columbia University Press. New York, NY
6. Kozine, I.O., and Filimonov Y.V., (2000). Imprecise reliabilities: experiences and advances. Reliability Engineering & System Safety 67: 75-83
7. Kreinovich, V., Beck J., Ferregut C., Sanchez A., Keller G.R., Averill M., and Starks S.A., (2004). Monte-Carlo-type techniques for processing interval uncertainty and their engineering applications. Proceedings of the Workshop on Reliable Engineering Computing, Savannah, Georgia, September 15-17, pp. 139-160.
8. Kreinovich, V., and Ferson S.A., (2004). A new Cauchy-based black-box technique for uncertainty in risk analysis. Reliability Engineering & System Safety 85: 267-279
9. McGuire, E.P., (1980). Industrial Product Warranties: Policies and Practices. The Conference Board, Inc., New York, NY
10. Melchers, R.E., (1999). Structural Reliability Analysis and Prediction 2nd ed. John Wiley&Sons. Chichester, England
11. Melchers, R.E., (1990). Search-based importance sampling. Structural Safety 9: 117-128
12. Nair, P. B., (2005). Projection Schemes in Stochastic Finite Element Analysis. Engineering Design Reliability Handbook, CRC Press. Boca Raton: 21-1-21-33.
13. Nikolaidis, E., Cudney, H., Rosca, R., and Haftka, R. T., (1999). "Comparison of Probabilistic and Fuzzy Set-Based Methods for Designing under Uncertainty," AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ACS 40 th Structures, Structural Dynamics and Material Conference: 2860-2874
14. Oberkampf, W.L., DeLand S.M., Rutherford B.M., Diegert K.V., Alvin K.F., (2002). Error and uncertainty in modeling and simulation. Reliability Engineering and System Safety 75: 333-357
15. Ochi, M.K., (1990). Applied Probability and Stochastic Processes in Engineering and Physical Sciences. John Wiley&Sons. New York, NY
16. Opp, M., Glazebrook K., and Kulkarni V.G., (2005). Outsourcing warranty repairs: Dynamic allocation. Naval Research Logistics 52: 381-398
17. Penmetsa, R.C., and Grandhi R.V., (2002). Efficient estimation of structural reliability for problems with uncertain intervals. Computers & Structures 80: 1103-1112
18. Utkin, L.V., (2004). A new efficient algorithm for computing the imprecise reliability of monotone systems. Reliability Engineering & System Safety 86: 179-190
19. Utkin, L.V., (2003). Imprecise reliability of cold standby systems. International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 20 (6): 722-739
20. Utkin, L.V., and Gurov S.V., (2002). Imprecise reliability for some new lifetime distribution classes. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 105: 215-232
21. Utkin, L.V., and Gurov S.V., (2001). New reliability models based on imprecise probabilities on Advanced Signal Processing Technology. Hsu Charles, (ed). World Scientific. Singapore, Singapore
22. Utkin, L.V., and Gurov S.V., (1999). Imprecise reliability of general structures. Knowledge and Information Systems 1: 459-480
23. Walley, P., (1991). Statistical Reasoning with Imprecise Probabilities. Chapman and Hall. London, England