Journal
PROBABILISTIC ENGINEERING MECHANICS
Volume 37, Issue -, Pages 74-83Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.probengmech.2014.06.001
Keywords
Nonstationary process simulation; Wavelet; Spectral representation method; Fast Fourier transform; Cholesky decomposition; Phase
Funding
- National 1000 Young Talents (China), Ministry of Transport of China [201231835250]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [U1334201]
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Currently, the classical spectral representation method (SRM) for nonstationary process simulation is widely used in the engineering community. Although this scheme has the higher accuracy, the time-dependent spectra results in unavailability of fast Fourier transform (FFT) and thus the simulation efficiency is lower. On the other hand, the approach based on stochastic decomposition can apply FFT in the simulation. However, the algorithm including the fitting procedure is relatively complicated and thus limits its use in practice. In this paper, the hybrid efficient simulation method is proposed for the vector-valued nonstationary process, which contains the spectra decomposition via wavelets and SRM. This method can take advantage of FFT and is also straightforward to engineering application. Numerical examples are employed to evaluate the proposed method. Results show that the method performs fairly well for the scalar process and vector-valued process with real coherence function. In the case of complex coherence function, the majority of the phase in the coherence function cannot be remained in the simulation. In addition, the validity of proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) in nonstationary process simulation via the decomposition of the time-dependent nonstationary spectra is studied. Analysis shows that the direct use of POD in nonstationary spectra decomposition may not be useful in nonstationary process simulations. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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