Could you tell me an artificial method to calculate the reliability of the structure?

Dear Yancang Li,

what do you mean as an artificial method?

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Leszek

Dear Leszek,

The "an artificial method" is the an artificial intelligence method.

Thanks!

Li Yancang

Dear Yancang Li,

Thanks for clarification. It depends on the scope and purpose of the analysis. You can find application of: ANN (e.g. http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/p/karun92.pdf), Fuzzy Logic (e.g. http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jqre/2012/847416/), expert systems (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226410472_The_reliability_prediction_of_electronic_packages__an_expert_systems_approach) and GA (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5069339&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D5069339) and so on.

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Leszek

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Dear Leszek Chybowski,

Thanks for the valuable suggestion.Thanks!

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Li Yancang

What do you mean by an "artificial method" ?

 Anyway,  try the Monte Carlo method based on calculating system signature, see for example,  our book "models and Methods of Network REliability", CRC press.

Dear professor Ilya B. Gertsbakh,

Thanks for the vaulable answer. And I will read the book carefully.

Li Yancang