... sampling, a novel reliability analysis method is proposed. This work conducts efficient reliability for the overall motion mechanism. Findings The analysis results show that the probability of upper lock failure is significantly higher than other failure modes. Originality/value The analysis...

...Chunping Zhou; Zheng Wei; Huajin Lei; Fangyun Ma; Wei Li Purpose Surrogate models are extensively used to substitute real models which are expensive to evaluate in the time-dependent reliability analysis. Normally, different surrogate models have different scopes of application. However...