Integrating system-level and component-level designs under uncertainty

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 752-760

  Smith, Natasha ^a,b   Mahadevan, Sankaran ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE VEHICLES; LAUNCHING; MACHINE DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RELIABILITY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

AERODYNAMIC CONSTRAINTS; PROBABILISTIC OPTIMIZATION; SYSTEM-COMPONENT DESIGN;

UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

EID: 24144452501     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.6662     Document Type: Article

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