Active learning reliability analysis for the design of continuous reinforced concrete beams
Résumé
In the context of uncertainty propagation, conducting efficient structural reliability analysis is
crucial for the design and analysis of computationally expensive engineering problems, such as
the design of reinforced concrete rail bridges. Reliability analysis involves calculating the
failure probabilities of an engineering system with respect to one or multiple limit-state
functions. To address this, various methods, including analytical approaches, sampling
techniques, and surrogate-based algorithms can be found in the existing literature. To avoid
substantial calls for computationally expensive FEM models of complex engineering systems,
active learning surrogate-based techniques can be used nowadays to deal with such problems.
To perform active learning reliability analysis, four main steps should be done starting with
surrogate model development, followed by failure probabilities estimation, applying then a
learning function to enrich the surrogate model, to checking finally the method’s convergence.
The objective of the presented work is to conduct a reliability analysis involving multiple limitstates
for a continuous reinforced concrete beam. The limit states considered are the admissible
deflection, both flexural and shear strengths, and the admissible stress in the steel rebars for the
cracking control check. The analysis is performed using a kriging surrogate based on a limited
number of simulations of a multi-fiber non-linear FEA RC beam model implemented into
Cast3M software, in combination with subset simulation, deviation number U as a learning
function, and a combined stopping criterion. A comparative performance assessment is also
conducted on different active learning algorithms generated by substituting the learning
function alone or both the surrogate and the learning function. The number of iterations required
by the model to converge is the main criterion for the performance assessment.
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