Efficient robust design via Monte Carlo sample reweighting

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 69, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2279-2301

  Fonseca, José R ^a,c   Friswell, Michael I ^b   Lees, Arthur W ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo; Probabilistic; Robust design; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

BEAM TRUSS; MONTE CARLO SAMPLE REWEIGHTING; ROBUST DESIGN; STOCHASTIC FUNCTIONS;

TRUSSES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TRUSSES;

EID: 33947142607     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1850     Document Type: Article

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