A new efficient and accurate hybrid reliability method is proposed to estimate risk of an axially loaded single pile considering pile-soil interaction effect. Uncertainties associated with all the design variables are considered appropriately. It intelligently integrates the concepts of the response surface method, the finite difference method, the first-order reliability method, and an iterati...

1. Abstract We propose a reliability analysis (RA) method that obtains the probability of failure by sequentially approximating the cumulative distribution function (CDF). This method uses the concept of the first order reliability method (FORM) in estimating the probability of failure but does not solve the optimization problem to obtain the most probable point (MPP). The goal of the proposed ...

This paper presents an original method for evaluating reliability indices for Multi-State Systems (MSSs) in the presence of aleatory and epistemic uncertainties. In many real world MSSs an insufficiency of data makes it difficult to estimate precise values for component state probabilities. The proposed approach applies the Transferable Belief Model (TBM) interpretation of the Dempster-Shafer t...

In reliability design, often, there is scarce data for constructing probabilistic models. It is particularly challenging to model uncertainty in variables when the type of their probability distributions is unknown. Moreover, it is expensive to estimate the upper and lower bounds of the reliability of a system involving such variables. A method for modeling uncertainty by using Polynomial Chaos...

Faster and more reliable connection establishment is the primary purpose of periodic safety broadcasting in VANETs. For this purpose we propose a sublayer in the application layer to increase the reliability of safety applications. Our proposed method uses several rebroadcasting schemes safety messages, which considerably improves the overall reliability. It also handles the synchronized collis...

in this study, we modify an iterative non-optimal without memory method, in such a way that is becomes optimal. therefore, we obtain convergence order eight with the some functional evaluations. to justify our proposed method, some numerical examples are given.

Conclusions This paper considers network topological optimization with a reliability constraint. The objective is to find the topological layout of links, a t a minimal cost, under the constraint that the network reliability is not less than a given level of system reliability. A decomposition method, based on branch & bound, is used for solving the problem. In order to speed-up the procedure, ...

in the literature of life-testing, general progressive censoring has been studied extensively. but, all the results have been developed under the key assumption that the units undertest are independently distributed. in this paper, we study general progressively type-ii censored order statistics arising from identical units under test which are jointly distributed according to an archimedean co...