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The 12th International Symposium on Structural Engineering AN EFFICIENT ALGORITHM FOR THE PROBABILITY DENSITY EVOLUTION ANALYSIS OF STRONG NONLINEAR STRUCTURES Jianbing Chen, Shenghan Zhang, Jie Li State Key Laboratory of Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering School of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, P.R. China Abstract: In structural engineering, how to tackle the randomness in various aspects is one of the most important issues to structural safety.The basic thought of physical stochastic systems provides a new approach to problems involving randomness. In this context, the probability density evolution method (PDEM) was developed and studied. In the present paper, the fundamentals of probability density evolution method (PDEM) are revisited firstly. Some new advances are outlined, including the concept of point evolution and ensemble evolution and the rank of an integral which can be used to clarify the difference between the cubature formula and PDEM. The quasi-symmetric point method and its improvement, the rotational quasi-symmetric point method, are introduced and exemplified. Problems to be further explored are outlined. Keywords: Nonlinear structures, stochastic response, probability density evolution method, quasi-symmetric point method, Givens transform 1 INTRODUCTION analysis, owing to the different treatment to the apparent different sources of the randomness (Li et al., 2012a). Several methods have been The uncertainty involved in structural engineering developed in random vibration, including the is one of the widest gaps between the rational power