Structural Reliability Analysis

Dr. Shun-Peng Zhu is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). His research focuses on fatigue design, structural reliability analysis, probabilistic physics of failure, multi-physics damage modeling, and life prediction for engineering structures and materials.Dr. Behrooz Keshtegar is a faculty member in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Zabol. His research interests include structural reliability analysis, nonparametric regression, probabilistic analysis, and reliability-based design optimization. He also works on machine learning methods, mathematical modeling, and hybrid surrogate methods. His work emphasizes chaos control approaches, conjugate sensitivity methods, and harmony search techniques for reliability analysis.

• Chapter 1. Basic concepts.- Chapter 2. Brief introduction on reliability methods.- Chapter 3. Steepest methods for FORM.- Chapter 4. Convergence control for first order reliability methods.- Chapter 5. Directional steepest descent approaches for FORM.- Chapter 6. Directional conjugate gradient approaches for FORM.- Chapter 7: Improved conjugate FORM.- Chapter 8. Original-space search for FORM.