MODIFIED SCHEME BASED ON SEMI-ANALYTIC APPROACH FOR COMPUTING NON-PROBABILISTIC RELIABILITY INDEX

(整期优先)网络出版时间:2010-02-12
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Anewcomputationschemeproposedtotacklecommensurateproblemsisdevelopedbymodifyingthesemi-analyticapproachforminimizingcomputationalcomplexity.Usingtheproposedscheme,thelimitstateequations,usuallyreferredtoasthefailuresurface,areobtainedfromtransformationofanintervalvariabletoanormalizedone.Inordertominimizethecomputationalcost,twoalgorithmsforoptimizingthecalculationstepshavebeenproposed.Themonotonicityoftheobjectivefunctioncanbedeterminedfromnarrowingthescopeofintervalvariablesinnormalizedinfinitespacebyincorporatingthealgorithmsintothecomputationalscheme.Twoexamplesareusedtoillustratetheoperationandcomputationalefficiencyoftheapproach.Theresultsoftheseexamplesshowthattheproposedalgorithmscangreatlyreducethecomputationcomplexitywithoutsacrificingthecomputationalaccuracy.Theadvantageoftheproposedschemecanbeevenmoreefficientforanalyzingsophisticstructures.