Structural Reliability: Statistical Learning Perspectives

The last decades have witnessed the development of methods for solving structural reliability problems, which emerged from the efforts of numerous researchers all over the world. For the specific and most common problem of determining the probability of failure of a structural system in which the limit state function g( x) = 0 is only implicitly known, the proposed methods can be grouped into two main categories: • Methods based on the Taylor expansion of the performance function g(x) about...