Optimization for minimum sensitivity to uncertain parameters

AIAA Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1501-1504

  Pritchard, Jocelyn I ^a,b   Adelman, Howard M ^a,c,d   Sobieszczanski Sobieski, Jaroslaw ^a,d,e  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Army Research Laboratory

^c Structural Dynamics Branch

^d AIAA ^*

^e Structures Division

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EID: 0001527176     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/3.13259     Document Type: Article

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