Title
An active learning Bayesian ensemble surrogate model for structural reliability analysis
Abstract
Surrogate models have been proven to be powerful tools to alleviate the computational burden of structural reliability analysis. An appropriate surrogate model can guarantee prediction accuracy with limited samples. However, the traditional single modeling technique ignores the model-form uncertainty due to insufficient knowledge of the physical system, leading to unreliable prediction results or time-consuming computation. To overcome the aforementioned deficiencies, an active learning ensemble surrogate model under the framework of Bayesian inference is proposed for structural reliability analysis. Based on the derived Bayesian posterior distribution of the predicted response, a learning function integrating the modified U function and the distance information between design points is developed to sequentially select the next point. Besides, in order to further enhance the computational efficiency, we propose an adaptive method to identify the sampling region according to the prediction uncertainty of the estimated limit state surface. Five benchmark examples are employed to verify the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed algorithm. Comparison results show that the proposed active learning reliability analysis method based on the Bayesian ensemble surrogate model can greatly reduce the computational expense with a competitive prediction accuracy. Taking the 10-bar truss problem as an example, compared with AK-MCS+U, ALR-Bpce, and ALR-SVR, the improved rate of the proposed method in efficiency is 51.58%, 12.78%, and 25.96%, respectively. Meanwhile, its prediction accuracy is high and much better than ALR-ELSM. In addition, the superior performance is robust in a wide range of application cases.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1002/qre.3152
QUALITY AND RELIABILITY ENGINEERING INTERNATIONAL
Keywords
DocType
Volume
active learning, Bayesian inference, ensemble surrogate model, structural reliability analysis
Journal
38
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
7
0748-8017
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tianli Xiao100.34
Chanseok Park2308.08
Linhan Ouyang301.35
Yizhong Ma492.61