A subset multicanonical Monte Carlo method for stimulating rare failure events

发布日期:2017-12-11点击数:

时间:2017.12.15(星期五)10:00-11:00


地点:理科楼LD203


报告人:陈新娟博士(集美大学)


摘要:Estimating failure probabilities of engineering systems is an important problem in many engineering fields. In this work we consider such problems where the failure probability is extremely small (e.g≤ 10−10). In this case, standard Monte Carlo methods are not feasible due to the extraordinarily large number of samples required. To address these problems, we propose an algorithm that combines the main ideas of two very powerful failure probability estimation approaches: the subset simulation (SS) and the multicanonical Monte Carlo (MMC) methods. Unlike the standard MMC which samples in the entire domain of the input parameter in each iteration, the proposed subset MMC algorithm adaptively performs MMC simulations in a subset of the state space and thus improves the sampling efficiency. With numerical examples we demonstrate that the proposed method is significantly more efficient than both of the SS and the MMC methods. Moreover, the proposed algorithm can reconstruct the complete distribution function of the parameter of interest and thus can provide more information than just the failure probabilities of the systems.


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