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Advanced method to estimate reliability-based sensitivity of mechanical components with strongly nonlinear performance function

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  • School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, P. R. China

Received date: 2010-02-26

  Revised date: 2010-07-23

  Online published: 2010-10-01

Abstract

Based on the random perturbation technique for reliability sensitivity design, some realistic reliability-based sensitivity issues are discussed, some of which have a structure of high nonlinear performance functions. Combining the related theories of the moment method of the reliability analysis, the matrix differential, and the Kronecker algebra, the reliability-based sensitivity method based on the perturbation method is modified if the first four moments of random variables are given. Meanwhile, a reliability-based sensitivity computation method is proposed. Some examples are used to show that using this method can effectively improve the accuracy of the reliability-based sensitivity computation and offer a reliable theoretic basis in engineering.

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ZHANG Yi-Min;ZHU Li-Sha;WANG Xin-Gang . Advanced method to estimate reliability-based sensitivity of mechanical components with strongly nonlinear performance function[J]. Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 2010 , 31(10) : 1325 -1336 . DOI: 10.1007/s10483-010-1365-x

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