... error (RMSE). The artificial neural networks (ANN) and response surface method (RSM) can provide comparable results to CNN models for the slope reliability where only two random variables are involved whereas a significant discrepancy between the slope failure probability...

... by Totaro (2004) are divided in to three cases that depend on load normalization factors [ equation (2) ] and they are shown in Table 1 . © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Composites ANOVA Response surface method Buckling Isogrid...

...Hailiang Su; Fengchong Lan; Yuyan He; Jiqing Chen Purpose Because of the high computational efficiency, response surface method (RSM) has been widely used in structural reliability analysis. However, for a highly nonlinear limit state function (LSF), the approximate accuracy of the failure...

... of the optimization results of the reliability evaluation. Taking the local high efficiency of the proxy model, this paper aims to propose a local effective constrained response surface method (LEC-RSM) based on a meta-model. Design/methodology/approach The operating mechanisms of LEC-RSM is to calculate...

... with the low efficiency problem. Professor X. Han can be contacted at: hanxu@hnu.edu.cn © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Reliability analysis Response surface method Performance measure approach Radial basis function AMV  advanced mean value FORM  first-order reliability...