Reliability Analysis of Dynamic Systems

Preface

Deterministic analysis approaches/tools have dominated the whole aerospace industry for many years. It has been widely accepted, however, that the relevant non-deterministic analysis methods, either probabilistic or possiblistic, will be eventually adopted to some extent in this area. This process has been very slow, partly due to the conservative nature of the industry and partly due to some difficulties in applying these methods, which are now being addressed by both academia and industry.

Within the last decade in the engineering field, possibilistic approaches have been widely studied and applied to the reliability analysis of dynamic systems. During this period, there has been a lack of research interest in delivering efficient ...