A sequential approximate programming strategy for performance-measure-based probabilistic structural design optimization

Structural Safety

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 91-109

  Yi, Ping ^a   Cheng, Gengdong ^a   Jiang, Lei ^b  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Performance measure approach; Probabilistic structural design optimization; Reliability index; Sequential approximate programming

Indexed keywords

LINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM VARIABLES; RELIABILITY;

PERFORMANCE MEASURE APPROACH; PROBABILISTIC STRUCTURAL DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY INDEX APPROACH; SEQUENTIAL LINEAR PROGRAMMING;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

LINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM VARIABLES; RELIABILITY; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 36348931585     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2006.08.003     Document Type: Article

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