The inverse problem analysis method provides an effective way for the structural parameter identification. However, uncertainties wildly exist in the practical engineering inverse problems. Due to the coupling of multi-source uncertainties in the measured responses and the modeling parameters, the traditional inverse method under the deterministic framework faces the challenges in solving mechanism and computing cost. In this paper, an uncertain inverse method based on convex model and dimension reduction decomposition is proposed to realize the interval identification of unknown structural parameters according to the uncertain measured responses and modeling parameters. Firstly, the polygonal convex set model is established to quantify the epistemic uncertainties of modeling parameters. Afterwards, a space collocation method based on dimension reduction decomposition is proposed to transform the inverse problem considering multi-source uncertainties into a few interval inverse problems considering response uncertainty. The transformed interval inverse problem involves the two-layer solving process including interval propagation and optimization updating. In order to solve the interval inverse problems considering response uncertainty, an efficient interval inverse method based on the high dimensional model representation and affine algorithm is further developed. Through the coupling of the above two strategies, the proposed uncertain inverse method avoids the time-consuming multi-layer nested calculation procedure, and then effectively realizes the uncertainty identification of unknown structural parameters. Finally, two engineering examples are provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed uncertain inverse method.
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