NDLI: Uncertainty Analysis by Dimension Reduction Integration and Saddlepoint Approximations

Content Provider	The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Digital Collection
Author	Huang, Beiqing Du, Xiaoping
Copyright Year	2005
Abstract	Uncertainty analysis, which assesses the impact of the uncertainty of input variables on responses, is an indispensable component in engineering design under uncertainty such as reliability based design and robust design. However, uncertainty analysis is not an affordable computational burden in many engineering problems. In this paper, a new uncertainty analysis method is proposed with the purpose of accurately and efficiently estimating the cumulative distribution function (CDF), probability density function (PDF) and statistical moments of a response given the distributions of input variables. The bivariate dimension-reduction method and numerical integration are used to calculate the moments of the response; then Saddlepoint Approximations are employed to estimate the CDF and PDF of the response. The proposed method requires neither the derivatives of the response nor the search of the Most Probable Point (MPP), which is needed in the commonly used First - or Second - Order Reliability Methods (FORM or SORM). The efficiency and accuracy of the proposed method is illustrated with three example problems. The method is more accurate and efficient for estimating the full range of the distribution of a response than FORM and SORM. This method provides results as accurate as Monte Carlo simulation, with a significantly reduced computational effort.
Sponsorship	Design Engineering Division and Computers and Information in Engineering Division
Starting Page	1143
Ending Page	1152
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	079184739X
DOI	10.1115/DETC2005-84523
e-ISBN	0791837661
Volume Number	Volume 2: 31st Design Automation Conference, Parts A and B
Conference Proceedings	ASME 2005 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
Language	English
Publisher Date	2005-09-24
Publisher Place	Long Beach, California, USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Dimension reduction Numerical integration Uncertainty analysis Saddlepoint approximations Dimensions Approximation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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