Abstract: In engineering applications of sampling-based reliability-based design optimization (RBDO), the Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) using a surrogate model of the performance function is mainly used for the probability of failure ...

Abstract: This paper proposes to apply the convolution integral method to the novel second-order reliability method (SORM) to further improve its computational efficiency. The novel SORM showed better accuracy in estimating the ...

Abstract: Recent studies have shown that a subcritical surface crack, due to primary water stress corrosion cracking (PWSCC), can transition to a throughwall crack (TWC) with significant differences between the inner diameter (ID) ...

Abstract: In this paper, finite element (FE) analyses were performed to update and also extend the applicable ranges of the existing KI and crack-opening displacement (COD) solutions for nonidealized through-wall cracks (TWCs). Then, ...

Abstract: The selective light absorption of prestretched thermoplastic polymeric films enables wireless photothermal shape morphing from two-dimensional Euclidean geometry of films to three-dimensional (3D) curvilinear architectures. ...