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Adaptive subregion-based active Kriging for collaborative multi-failure reliability assessment
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School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Suqian University, China
 
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School of Mechanical Engineering, University Science and Technology Beijing, China
 
 
Submission date: 2025-08-23
 
 
Final revision date: 2025-09-19
 
 
Acceptance date: 2025-12-27
 
 
Online publication date: 2025-12-27
 
 
Publication date: 2025-12-27
 
 
Corresponding author
Lu-Kai Song   

School of Mechanical Engineering, University Science and Technology Beijing, China
 
 
 
HIGHLIGHTS
  • Proposes adaptive subregion-based active Kriging (AS-AK) method.
  • Enhances efficiency and accuracy in multi-failure reliability assessment.
  • Integrates active learning with adaptive subregion decomposition.
  • Validated on four benchmarks and aeroengine rigid-flexible system.
  • Outperforms traditional methods in accuracy and computational cost.
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This paper proposes an adaptive subregion-based active Kriging (AS-AK) surrogate modeling approach. Firstly, an adaptive subregion decomposition strategy is developed to partition the candidate sample space into multiple concentric subregions, significantly enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of sampling. Subsequently, an active Kriging surrogate model is constructed, where the surrogate model is sequentially updated by iteratively selecting critical samples within each subregion to precisely approximate the highly nonlinear limit state function. Moreover, a collaborative multi-output surrogate modeling framework is further established to systematically handle correlations among multiple failure modes. Four benchmark numerical examples and an engineering application involving an aeroengine rigid-flexible coupling system illustrate that the proposed AS-AK method significantly outperforms existing reliability methods in both computational efficiency and accuracy.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This paper is co-supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant 52105136), the Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province (Grant no. 2024A1515240025), Suqian Science & Technology Program(Grant No. K202444)and Suqian College Talent Introduction and Research Start up Fund (Grant No. 106-CK00042/160). The authors would like to thank them.
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