Pull and prune technique for complex structural reliability analysis |
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Authors: | KYUNG S. PARK KUK KIM |
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Affiliation: | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology , Seoul, South Korea |
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Abstract: | Based on the pull and prune technique proposed here for computing source-to-sink reliability, a very powerful 30-line Basic personal computer program reduces a complex reliability structure one node at a time by pruning return-loops from the evolving sink. Compared to the methodical application of the recursive pivotal decomposition technique, the proposed algorithm is particularly efficient for complex structures intertwined with many counter-directed components. |
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