“…Nowadays, RSM has many applications in the field of engineering and structural reliability and is used in combination with finite element models (Anyfantis, 2019(Anyfantis, , 2020Arai and Shimizu, 2001;Duc et al, 2013;Gaspar et al, 2012;Kemper et al, 2006;Lee et al, 2015;Rahman et al, 2017;Ranjbari et al, 2020;Yanhui et al, 2010;Meng et al, 2019Meng et al, , 2020a.…”