Optimization algorithms for structural reliability

✍ Scribed by Pei-Ling Liu; Armen Der Kiureghian

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 964 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-4730
• DOI: 10.1016/0167-4730(91)90041-7

✦ Synopsis

Several optimization algorithms are evaluated for application in structural reliability, where the minimum distance from the origin to the limit-state surface in the standard normal space is required. The objective is to determine the suitability of the algorithms for application to linear and nonlinear finite element reliability problems. After a brief review, five methods are compared through four numerical examples. Comparison criteria are the generality, robustness, efficiency, and capacity of each method.