Abstract
Stochastic response analysis and first-passage reliability evaluation of multi-degree of freedom nonlinear systems subject to non-stationary seismic excitation have been a critical issue in the field of compound random vibrations, yet remain unsolved. This study extends the time-varying reliability analysis method based on the probability density evolution method, making it applicable to the problem of stochastic response analysis and first-passage reliability evaluation of complex engineering structures. To efficiently represent the response of representative samples, a nonlinear autoregressive with exogenous inputs neural network model is introduced in this study. After comparing three different optimization methods, the neural network model based on the Bayesian regularization algorithm is selected as the predictor for the response of complex nonlinear systems, enabling efficient stochastic response analysis and time-varying reliability evaluation. To this end, leveraging the high efficiency of the probability density evolution method, the analysis of time-varying reliability of large-scale structures has been successfully conducted. Furthermore, the proposed method can be easily expanded to dynamic reliability evaluation problems represented by extreme value theory. Three numerical examples are quoted to demonstrate the applicability and advantages of the proposed method in the field of first-passage and extreme-value problems of systems, which are also compared with PCE, SVR, and Kriging. The results from these numerical examples indicate that the proposed method can effectively reduce the required calculational cost for the reliability analysis of complex structures while maintaining high analytical accuracy.
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