A Metamodel-Based Multi-Scale Reliability Analysis of FRP Truss Structures under Hybrid Uncertainties

Abstract

This study introduces a Radial Basis Function-Genetic Algorithm-Back Propagation-Importance Sampling (RBF-GA-BP-IS) algorithm for the multi-scale reliability analysis of Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) composite structures. The proposed method integrates the computationally powerful RBF neural network with GA, BP neural network and IS to efficiently calculate inner and outer optimization problems for reliability analysis with hybrid random and interval uncertainties. The investigation profoundly delves into incorporating both random and interval parameters in the reliability appraisal of FRP constructs, ensuring fluctuating parameters within designated boundaries are meticulously accounted for, thus augmenting analytic exactness. In application, the algorithm was subjected to diverse structural evaluations, including a seven-bar planar truss, an architectural space dome truss, and an intricate nonlinear truss bridge. Results demonstrate the algorithm’s exceptional performance in terms of model invocation counts and accurate failure probability estimation. Specifically, within the seven-bar planar truss evaluation, the algorithm exhibited a deviation of 0.08% from the established failure probability benchmark.