Special issue: Advances in reliability methods and probabilistic system identification techniques

International Journal of Reliability and Safety 4(2/3) 2010

• Spherical subset simulation (S³) for solving non-linear dynamical reliability problems
• Reliability-based synthesis of non-linear stochastic dynamical systems: a global approximation approach
• Reliability estimation using univariate dimension reduction and extended generalised lambda distribution
• Estimating system reliability with correlated component failures
• A Bayesian methodology for crack identification in structures using strain measurements
• Designing accelerated life tests for generalised exponential distribution with log-linear model
• Experimental study and nonlinear modelling by artificial neural networks of a distillation column
• Heuristic methods for solving redundancy allocation in complex systems
• Reliability optimisation using harmony search algorithm under performance and budget constraints