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Distribution-free stochastic model updating of dynamic systems with parameter dependencies

Distribution-free stochastic model updating of dynamic systems with parameter dependencies
Distribution-free stochastic model updating of dynamic systems with parameter dependencies

This work proposes a distribution-free stochastic model updating framework to calibrate the joint probabilistic distribution of the multivariate correlated parameters. In this framework, the marginal distributions are defined as the staircase density functions and the correlation structure is described by the Gaussian copula function. The first four moments of the staircase density functions and the correlation coefficients are updated by an approximate Bayesian computation, in which the Bhattacharyya distance-based metric is proposed to define an approximate likelihood that is capable of capturing the stochastic discrepancy between model outputs and observations. The feasibility of the framework is demonstrated on two illustrative examples and a followed engineering application to the updating of a nonlinear dynamic system using observed time signals. The results demonstrate the capability of the proposed updating procedure in the very challenging condition where the prior knowledge about the distribution of the parameters is extremely limited (i.e., no information on the marginal distribution families and correlation structure is available).

Bayesian model updating, Bhattacharyya distance, Gaussian copula function, Staircase density function, Uncertainty quantification
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Kitahara, Masaru
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Bi, Sifeng
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Broggi, Matteo
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Beer, Michael
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Kitahara, Masaru
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Broggi, Matteo
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Beer, Michael
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Kitahara, Masaru, Bi, Sifeng, Broggi, Matteo and Beer, Michael (2022) Distribution-free stochastic model updating of dynamic systems with parameter dependencies. Structural Safety, 97, [102227]. (doi:10.1016/j.strusafe.2022.102227).

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This work proposes a distribution-free stochastic model updating framework to calibrate the joint probabilistic distribution of the multivariate correlated parameters. In this framework, the marginal distributions are defined as the staircase density functions and the correlation structure is described by the Gaussian copula function. The first four moments of the staircase density functions and the correlation coefficients are updated by an approximate Bayesian computation, in which the Bhattacharyya distance-based metric is proposed to define an approximate likelihood that is capable of capturing the stochastic discrepancy between model outputs and observations. The feasibility of the framework is demonstrated on two illustrative examples and a followed engineering application to the updating of a nonlinear dynamic system using observed time signals. The results demonstrate the capability of the proposed updating procedure in the very challenging condition where the prior knowledge about the distribution of the parameters is extremely limited (i.e., no information on the marginal distribution families and correlation structure is available).

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Accepted/In Press date: 25 April 2022
e-pub ahead of print date: 3 May 2022
Published date: 3 May 2022
Keywords: Bayesian model updating, Bhattacharyya distance, Gaussian copula function, Staircase density function, Uncertainty quantification

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Local EPrints ID: 490515
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/490515
ISSN: 0167-4730
PURE UUID: f9942875-c962-44a2-a916-193b30a6a0a3
ORCID for Sifeng Bi: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-8600-8649

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Date deposited: 29 May 2024 16:43
Last modified: 01 Jun 2024 02:09

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Author: Masaru Kitahara
Author: Sifeng Bi ORCID iD
Author: Matteo Broggi
Author: Michael Beer

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