Research Article

Vibration Reliability Analysis of Drum Brake Using the Artificial Neural Network and Important Sampling Method

Table 1

Comparison of the reliability index and POF from different reliability analysis methods with an ANN sample size of 100.

MethodReliability indexPOFNumber of samples (N1)Relative error (%)

MCS3.38343.58 E − 041 E + 7
AFOSM3.34974.05 E − 0412.989
IS3.38333.58 E − 041 E + 40.0146
BP-MCS3.37513.69 E − 041 E + 73.0726
BP-AFOSM3.35234.01 E − 0411.914
BP-IS3.38113.61 E − 041 E + 40.8292
RBF-MCS3.39193.47 E − 041 E + 73.0726
RBF-AFOSM3.35313.99 E − 0411.617
RBF-IS3.38243.59 E − 041 E + 40.3739