M R Moarefzadeh1
The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.10, No.1, pp. 5-6, 2009, DOI:10.3970/icces.2009.010.005
Abstract Among varieties of techniques to estimate structural reliability, directional simulation is well developed. This technique was first proposed to be used in standard Gaussian space where all random processes/variables are involved [1]. The main advantage of this procedure is that in each directional sample a closed form expression is available to estimate structural probability of failure conditioned on the sampled direction. The technique was then extended to a space in which all random variables/processes are involved, but they are not necessarily Gaussian [2,3]. Furthermore, Melchers [4] proposed this technique to be utilized in the load… More >