...Jia-Nan He; De-wei Yang; Wu Zhenyu Purpose For gravity dams built on foundations with directional joint sets, the seepage in the foundation possesses anisotropic characteristics and may have adverse effects on the foundation stability. A methodology for system reliability analysis of gravity dam...

... ; Chybowski and Gawdzinska1, 2016). Component importance ranking can be provides engineers with ways to determine which components in the system should receive much more attention or improve for increasing system reliability. Objective of importance measures is to identify the critical components of a system...