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Some basics concept of Stochastic Structural Dynamics are Moment of Input, Monte Carlo Simulation Approach, Multi-Dimensional Random Variables, Probabilistic Model.Main pouints of this lecture are: Variance Reduction, Probability of Failure, Monte Carlo Simulation Approach, Brute Force Simulations, Sub-Set Simulations, Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Failure Probabilities, Gaussian Random Process, System Parameters
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Monte Carlo simulation approach-
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Sub
‐set
simulations
using
Markov
Chain
Monte
Carlo
(MCMC)
-^ S K Au and J L Beck, 2001, Estimation of small failureprobabilities in high dimension by subset simulation, ProbabilisticEngineering Mechanics, 16, 263-277•^ J S Liu, 2001, Monte Carlo strategies in scientific computing,Springer, NY.
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with
minimum variance. The optimal variance is given by
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ranked member and denote
it by^
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RemarksThe definition of
-s (as in the present illustrative explanation)
ensures that
-s are all equal to 0.1. Estimates for sampling variance can be deduced.Choice of proposal density functio
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F P ^
n:
In standard normal space, typically shifted normal pdf.
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Blue line:Simulation with 10
samples
(^1) 10 2 ^10
(^3) 10
(^4) 10
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25 1 0 10
cos^
sin 1
~ iid N 0,
;^ ~ iid N 0, 2
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a^
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X^ t X
Example Question
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