An efficient Kriging-based subset simulation method for hybrid reliability analysis under random and interval variables with small failure probability

This paper proposes an efficient Kriging-based subset simulation (KSS) method for hybrid reliability analysis under random and interval variables (HRA-RI) with small failure probability. In this method, Kriging metamodel is employed to replace the true performance function, and it is smartly updated based on the samples in the first and last levels of subset simulation (SS). To achieve the smart update, a new update strategy is developed to search out samples located around the projection outlines on the limit-state surface. Meanwhile, the number of samples in each level of SS is adaptively adjusted according to the coefficients of variation of estimated failure probabilities. Besides, to quantify the Kriging metamodel uncertainty in the estimation of the upper and lower bounds of the small failure probability, two uncertainty functions are defined and the corresponding termination conditions are developed to control Kriging update. The performance of KSS is tested by four examples. Results indicate that KSS is accurate and efficient for HRA-RI with small failure probability.

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