An investigation of nonlinearity of reliability-based design optimization approaches

ASME 2002 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE2002

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 881-890

  Choi, Kyung K ^a   Youn, Byeng D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; NON-LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR MAPPINGS; OPTIMUM DESIGNS; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; PERFORMANCE MEASURE APPROACHES; PROBABILISTIC CONSTRAINTS; RANDOM PARAMETERS; RELIABILITY APPROACH; RELIABILITY INDEX; RELIABILITY-BASED DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE MEASURE APPROACH (PMA);

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; MACHINE DESIGN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RELIABILITY;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036974076     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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