Research Article

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

Table 3

Comparison of the reliability index and POF from different reliability analysis methods with an ANN sample size of 300.

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-MCS3.38263.59 E − 041 E + 70.2793
BP-AFOSM3.34914.05 E − 0413.251
BP-IS3.38473.56 E − 041 E + 40.4791
RBF-MCS3.38413.57 E − 041 E + 70.2793
RBF-AFOSM3.34974.05 E − 0413.001
RBF-IS3.38343.58 E − 041 E + 40.0058