FAN Wen-liang, WANG Yu-le, WEI Qi-ke, et al. Improved fourth-moment method for reliability analysis of geotechnical engineering[J]. 2018, 39(4): 1463-1468.
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FAN Wen-liang, WANG Yu-le, WEI Qi-ke, et al. Improved fourth-moment method for reliability analysis of geotechnical engineering[J]. 2018, 39(4): 1463-1468.DOI: 10.16285/j.rsm.2016.1055.
Improved fourth-moment method for reliability analysis of geotechnical engineering
In reliability analysis of geotechnical engineering
the performance function is usually implicit and has strong nonlinearity. However
practical moment methods such as JC method and SORM are mainly applicable to the explicit performance function. In this paper
an improved fourth-moment method for reliability analysis of geotechnical engineering is presented by combining the efficient point estimate method for probability moments with the high order moments method for reliability analysis. Firstly
by introducing independent transformation and linear transformation
the performance function becomes a function of the reference variables
and then an efficient estimate method for the first four moments of performance function is established
which combines the univariate dimension-reduction method for multivariable function with the method for the points and weights of reference variables. Secondly
based on the combination of the estimated probability moments estimation and the cubic normal transformation
an improved fourth-moment method to assess reliability of geotechnical engineering is proposed. Finally
two numerical cases are investigated to verify the proposed point estimate method for probability moments
and results indicate that the proposed estimate method is efficient and accurate
and a classical geotechnical engineering case is used to illustrate the easy-implementation
efficiency and accuracy of the proposed fourth-moment method for reliability analysis of geotechnical engineering.