Survival signature-based sensitivity analysis of systems with epistemic uncertainties

G. Feng, E. Patelli, M. Beer

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Abstract

The survival signature provides a basis for efficient reliability assessment of systems with more than one component type. Often a perfect probabilistic modelling of the system is not possible due to limited information, vagueness and imprecision. Hence generalized probabilistic methods need to be used. These methods allow to explicitly model the uncertainties without the need of unjustified hypotheses and approximation. In this paper, a novel and efficient sensitivity approach is presented. The proposed approach is based on survival signature, allowing to identify and rank components in a system. A numerical example is used to illustrate the above methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSafety and Reliability of Complex Engineered Systems - Proceedings of the 25th European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2015
EditorsEnrico Zio, Luca Podofillini, Wolfgang Kröger, Bruno Sudret, Božidar Stojadinović
Pages1547-1552
Number of pages6
Publication statusPublished - 15 Sept 2015
Event25th European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2015 - Zurich, Swaziland
Duration: 7 Sept 201510 Sept 2015

Publication series

NameSafety and Reliability of Complex Engineered Systems - Proceedings of the 25th European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2015

Conference

Conference25th European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2015
Country/TerritorySwaziland
CityZurich
Period7/09/1510/09/15

Keywords

  • numerical methods
  • reliability
  • sensitivity analysis
  • uncertainty analysis

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