A two-stage Kriging estimation variance reduction method for efficient time-variant reliability-based design optimization

Zhouzhou Song

doi:10.1016/j.ress.2023.109339

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A two-stage Kriging estimation variance reduction method for efficient time-variant reliability-based design optimization

2023-09-01

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DOI：10.1016/j.ress.2023.109339

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Adaptive Kriging modelling technique is an effective tool to reduce the computational burden for time-variant reliability-based design optimization (TRBDO) significantly. However, the existing methods may allocate sam-pling resources to unimportant regions and do not consider the correlations between time trajectories, both of which will waste some computationally expensive samples. In this paper, we propose a two-stage Kriging esti-mation variance reduction method (KEVAR2) to address these challenges. First, the expression of Kriging esti-mation variance is derived, which can quantify the contribution of correlations between time trajectories to the Kriging prediction uncertainty. Second, the global and local adaptive Kriging approaches are proposed based on the Kriging estimation variance reduction strategy. Meanwhile, two metrics, i.e., the expectation of wrong classification rate and the error of safe rate are proposed to quantify global and local errors of Kriging models respectively. After that, we propose a two-stage framework that integrates the global and local adaptive Kriging approaches together, where the first stage performs global adaptive sampling to quickly reduce the Kriging prediction error, and then the second stage performs local adaptive sampling in the region near the current optimal solution to achieve high efficiency. Finally, five case studies demonstrate the effectiveness of the pro-posed KEVAR2.

Keywords:

Time-variant reliability-based design optimi-zation

Adaptive kriging estimation variance reduction

Two-stage

Expectation of wrong classification rate

Error of safe rate