The paper presents a detailed review of the state-of-the-art research activities on structural reliability analysis of wind turbines between the 1990s and 2017. We describe the reliability methods including the firstand second-order reliability methods and the simulation reliability methods and show the procedure for and application areas of structural reliability analysis of wind turbines. Fur...

a reliability analysis of suspension bridges against buffeting failure due to gustiness of wind velocity is carried out using the concept of pra (probabilistic risk analysis) procedure. for this purpose, the bending stresses at the critical nodes of the bridge deck are obtained for buffeting forces using a spectral analysis technique and a finite element approach. for the purpose of reliability...

Purpose Normal transformation is often required in structural reliability analysis to convert the non-normal random variables into independent standard normal variables. The existing techniques, for example, Rosenblatt and Nataf transformation, usually require joint probability density function (PDF) and/or marginal PDFs of In practical problems, however, PDF are unknown due lack data while sta...

The theory of structural reliability is widely applied in many fields, such as architectural design, and mechanical engineering. In this paper, the resident and the load of a structure are defined as uncertain variables and the reliability index is defined as as the uncertain measure of the event that the resident is larger than the load. Furthermore, the reliability of series and parallel stru...