An Inverse Reliability-based approach for designing under uncertainty with application to robust piston design

Journal of Global Optimization

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 47-62

  Sherali, Hanif D ^a   Ganesan, Vikram ^b  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

^b FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Designing under uncertainty; Global optimization; Inverse Reliability; Reformulation Linearization Technique; Robust piston design

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; MACHINE DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; RELIABILITY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

GAUSSIAN KRIGING MODELS; INVERSE RELIABILITY; PISTON DESIGN; RANDOM VARIABLES; REFORMULATION LINEARIZATION TECHNIQUE (RLT);

PISTONS;

EID: 33845312285     PISSN: 09255001     EISSN: 15732916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10898-006-9035-y     Document Type: Article

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