Monotonicity and active set strategies in probabilistic design optimization

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 893-900

  Chan, Kuei Yuan ^a   Skerlos, Steven ^a   Papalambros, Panos Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Active set strategy; Monotonicity; Optimization under uncertainty; Probabilistics design; RBDO

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DESIGN; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY;

ACTIVE SET STRATEGY; MONOTONICITY; PROBABILISTICS DESIGN; RELIABILITY-BASED DESIGN OPTIMIZATION;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 33746415203     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2202887     Document Type: Article

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