Research Article

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

Table 2

Comparison of the reliability index and POF from different reliability analysis methods with an ANN sample size of 200.

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-MCS3.38033.62 E − 041 E + 71.1173
BP-AFOSM3.34824.07 E − 0413.607
BP-IS3.38783.52 E − 041 E + 41.5901
RBF-MCS3.38723.53 E − 041 E + 71.3966
RBF-AFOSM3.35014.04 E − 0412.804
RBF-IS3.38293.59 E − 041 E + 40.1528