...Wellison José de Santana Gomes Surrogate models are efficient tools which have been successfully applied in structural reliability analysis, as an attempt to keep the computational costs acceptable. Among the surrogate models available in the literature, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been...

... are those involving more demanding approaches, such as Monte Carlo simulation (MCS). In this context, surrogate models have been widely employed as an attempt to keep the computational effort acceptable. In this paper, an adaptive approach for reliability analysis using surrogate models, proposed...