Structural Reliability Analysis: Analytical Methods

Dr. Shun-Peng Zhu is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). His research focuses on fatigue design, structural reliability analysis, probabilistic physics of failure, multi-physics damage modeling, and life prediction for engineering structures and materials.

Dr. Behrooz Keshtegar is a faculty member in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Zabol. His research interests include structural reliability analysis, nonparametric regression, probabilistic analysis, and reliability-based design optimization. He also works on machine learning methods, mathematical modeling, and hybrid surrogate methods. His work emphasizes chaos control approaches, conjugate sensitivity methods, and harmony search techniques for reliability analysis.