Sequential Bayesian optimal experimental design for structural reliability analysis

DOI10.1007/S11222-021-10000-2MaRDI QIDQ2058731zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christian Agrell, Kristina Rognlien Dahl

Publication date 9 December 2021

Published in Statistics and Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00402

zbMATH Keywords

optimal experimental designstructural reliabilityprobability of failureepistemic and aleatory uncertaintyunscented transform

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics (62-08) Reliability and life testing (62N05) Optimal statistical designs (62K05) Sequential statistical design (62L05)

Abstract: Structural reliability analysis is concerned with estimation of the probability of a critical event taking place, described by $P(g(extbfX)leq0)$ for some $n$-dimensional random variable $extbfX$ and some real-valued function $g$. In many applications the function $g$ is practically unknown, as function evaluation involves time consuming numerical simulation or some other form of experiment that is expensive to perform. The problem we address in this paper is how to optimally design experiments, in a Bayesian decision theoretic fashion, when the goal is to estimate the probability $P(g(extbfX)leq0)$ using a minimal amount of resources. As opposed to existing methods that have been proposed for this purpose, we consider a general structural reliability model given in hierarchical form. We therefore introduce a general formulation of the experimental design problem, where we distinguish between the uncertainty related to the random variable $extbfX$ and any additional epistemic uncertainty that we want to reduce through experimentation. The effectiveness of a design strategy is evaluated through a measure of residual uncertainty, and efficient approximation of this quantity is crucial if we want to apply algorithms that search for an optimal strategy. The method we propose is based on importance sampling combined with the unscented transform for epistemic uncertainty propagation. We implement this for the myopic (one-step look ahead) alternative, and demonstrate the effectiveness through a series of numerical experiments.

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