Reliability analysis of the stress intensity factor using multilevel Monte Carlo methods

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  • Khader M. Hamdia
  • Hamid Ghasemi

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  • Arak University of Technology
  • Ministry of Science, Research and Technology Islamic Republic of Iran
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Original languageEnglish
Article number103497
JournalProbabilistic Engineering Mechanics
Volume74
Early online date7 Aug 2023
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2023

Abstract

This paper presents a reliability analysis for fracture toughness using a multilevel refinement on a hierarchy of computational models. A 2D finite element model discretized by quadrilateral elements is developed to analyze the stress intensity with the presence of an initial edge crack. The multilevel simulations are obtained considering a non-uniform sequence of mesh refinement in the vicinity of the crack tip. We set the probabilistic problem accounting for applied stress and crack size uncertainties. We analyze several error tolerances using the standard and multilevel Monte Carlo methods combined with the selective refinement procedure. The probability of failure is estimated by expanding it in a telescoping sum of an initial approximation at the coarsest mesh and a series of incremental corrections between the subsequent levels. In our analysis, we take on two common fracture problems; a single-edge notched tension to investigate the pure mode-I and an asymmetric four-points bending to consider the mixed mode-I/II. The results show significant savings in the computation cost.

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    Fracture mechanics, Multilevel Monte Carlo, Probability of failure, Reliability analysis, Stress intensity factor

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Reliability analysis of the stress intensity factor using multilevel Monte Carlo methods. / Hamdia, Khader M.; Ghasemi, Hamid.
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Hamdia KM, Ghasemi H. Reliability analysis of the stress intensity factor using multilevel Monte Carlo methods. Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics. 2023 Oct;74:103497. Epub 2023 Aug 7. doi: 10.1016/j.probengmech.2023.103497
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