Week 5: Component Reliability (continued)

Lecture

Recap of WS04. Interpretation of component reliability analysis. Note that there were no slides; we used the solution to WS04 (especially the graphical interpretation. To review and prepare for WS05, use the workbook material (FORM page here) and the Collegerama recording (all recordings listed here).

Workshop

WS05 will apply component reliability techniques to an existing deterministic problem (a FEM code) and report the results. This workshop is turned in for feedback/grading (should be possible to finish in class on Friday, but you have until Tuesday, May 28 at 4:00 AM to submit it; you can choose your own groups). You can access the assignment via GitHub classroom with this link](https://classroom.github.com/a/dT6xfm9u){:target=”_blank”}.

The main goals for this week are:
1. Identify the key results of a FORM analysis and be able to interpret them.
2. Explain the differences, advantages and disadvantages between MCS and FORM.
3. Clearly report the setup, analysis and results of a component reliability analysis.

Additional material is provided in the component reliability section of the Workbook.

Review WS04 and be sure you understand how the OpenTURNs code sets up and executes the MCS and FORM algorithms, as we will rely on this in WS05; the solution (Report.md and Analysis_solution.ipynb) has been posted to your GitHub repositories (update your fork) and the Workbook.