The development of an efficient MCMC strategy for sampling from complex distributions is a difficult task that needs to be solved for calculating small failure probabilit [...]

Over the past decade, the civil engineering community has ever more realized the importance and perspective of the reliability-based design optimization (RBDO), the selec [...]

One the most important and computationally challenging problems in reliability engineering is to estimate the failure probability, that is, the probability of unacceptabl [...]