Adaptive directed support vector machine method for the reliability evaluation of aeroengine structure

Machine learning methods have been widely applied to structural reliability analysis, due to the excellent performance in modeling precision and efficiency. In this paper, an adaptive directed support vector machine model (ADSVM) is proposed by integrating the adaptive sampling technology (AST) and the developed directed support vector machine (DSVM), to improve the efficiency and accuracy of turbine blade reliability analysis. In the developed method, the AST is adopted to extract high quality samples, in respect of distributed probability density and the distances between sample values and response values. The DSVM was developed by introducing the penalty coefficients for all the slack variables, to improve the modeling accuracy of SVM approach. One numerical example and the reliability analysis of aeroengine high-pressure turbine blade were performed to validate the developed methods. As illustrated in this numerical investigation, the modeling precision of DSVM is improved by alleviating the lag effect of support vector regression. From the comparison of methods, it is demonstrated that the ADSVM has higher accuracy, efficiency and stability in reliability simulations, which are improved by ∼20 % and ∼46.2 %, respectively. The main efforts of this study are to propose a promising approach, ADSVM, for the reliability analysis of complex structures besides turbine blades, which hold the academical significance in enriching and developing mechanical reliability theory.