Reliability Sensitivity and Optimization Modules
Roadmap
What is the Vision
What are the short term goals
Immediate (end of summer 2010!) achievable goals that can be deliverd that are useful to PEER, NEES!, and industry users.
What are the long term goals
What are the Limits
- Some elements and materials some of this just will not work for. need to be documented.
What is the Product
- Seperate Module with clear interface to any FE code!
- Working Interface to OpenSees
Documentation
Explanation/THEORY (Armen & Terje)
have a look:
Probabilistic Assessment of Structures!
how to explain what these modules will do to a structural engineer.
What does reliability, sensitivity and optimization mean in context of structural engineering
What is the process
List of References
Command Manual for use with OpenSees (Mike, Kevin, Quan, Michele)
Examples
References:
If you use this work, we would appreciate it if you would reference the papers below:
Haukaas, T., Der Kiureghian, A. “Methods and object-oriented software for FE reliability and sensitivity analysis with application to a bridge structure.” ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 21(3), pp. 151-163, 2007.
Design
Based on Terje's original work, Kevin & Michaels changes.
One new change all agree on is use of a new FunctionEvaluator class and introduction of some other class to store results in.
