New decoupled framework for reliability-based design optimization

AIAA Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1524-1531

  Agarwal, Harish ^a,b   Renaud, John E ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering ^*  (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOST PROBABLE POINT (MPP); OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; RELIABILITY-BASED DESIGN OPTIMIZATION (RBDO);

CONSTRAINT THEORY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RELIABILITY;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 33747046976     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.13510     Document Type: Article

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