Robust design: An overview

AIAA Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 181-191

  Park, Gyung Jin ^a,d,e   Lee, Tae Hee ^a,f   Lee, Kwon Hee ^b,g   Hwang, Kwang Hyeon ^c  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b Dong A University   (South Korea)

^c Hyundai Motor Co   (South Korea)

^d Department of Mechanical Engineering   (South Korea)

^e AIAA   (United States)

^f School of Mechanical Engineering

^g Department of Mechanical Engineering ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIOMATIC APPROACH; ROBUST DESIGN; ROBUST OPTIMIZATION; TAGUCHI METHOD;

AVIATION; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SPACE FLIGHT;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 31344479597     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.13639     Document Type: Review

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