A novel ensemble model using artificial neural network for predicting wave-induced forces on coastal bridge decks

Xu, Guoji; Ji, Chengjie; Wei, Huan; Wang, Jinsheng; Yuan, Peng

doi:10.1007/s00366-022-01745-z

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“…In recent years, surrogate-based methods have drawn extensive attention in engineering community because of their ability to reach a good trade-off between accuracy and efficiency (Aldosary et al, 2018;Wang et al, 2021c;Xu et al, 2022a, c). In structural reliability analysis, these methods aim at constructing an easy-to-evaluate surrogate model based on a set of sample points to approximate the true performance function, and then one can efficiently perform reliability analysis using the established surrogate model instead of the original one.…”

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An adaptive Kriging method based on K-means clustering and sampling in n-ball for structural reliability analysis

Wang

Cao

et al. 2023

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PurposeAssessing the failure probability of engineering structures is still a challenging task in the presence of various uncertainties due to the involvement of expensive-to-evaluate computational models. The traditional simulation-based approaches require tremendous computational effort, especially when the failure probability is small. Thus, the use of more efficient surrogate modeling techniques to emulate the true performance function has gained increasingly more attention and application in recent years. In this paper, an active learning method based on a Kriging model is proposed to estimate the failure probability with high efficiency and accuracy.Design/methodology/approachTo effectively identify informative samples for the enrichment of the design of experiments, a set of new learning functions is proposed. These learning functions are successfully incorporated into a sampling scheme, where the candidate samples for the enrichment are uniformly distributed in the n-dimensional hypersphere with an iteratively updated radius. To further improve the computational efficiency, a parallelization strategy that enables the proposed algorithm to select multiple sample points in each iteration is presented by introducing the K-means clustering algorithm. Hence, the proposed method is referred to as the adaptive Kriging method based on K-means clustering and sampling in n-Ball (AK-KBn).FindingsThe performance of AK-KBn is evaluated through several numerical examples. According to the generated results, all the proposed learning functions are capable of guiding the search toward sample points close to the LSS in the critical region and result in a converged Kriging model that perfectly matches the true one in the regions of interest. The AK-KBn method is demonstrated to be well suited for structural reliability analysis and a very good performance is observed in the investigated examples.Originality/valueIn this study, the statistical information of Kriging prediction, the relative contribution of the sample points to the failure probability and the distances between the candidate samples and the existing ones are all integrated into the proposed learning functions, which enables effective selection of informative samples for updating the Kriging model. Moreover, the number of required iterations is reduced by introducing the parallel computing strategy, which can dramatically alleviate the computation cost when time demanding numerical models are involved in the analysis.

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Section: Adaptivementioning

confidence: 99%