Approximate probabilistic optimization using exact-capacity-approximate- response-distribution (ECARD)

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 613-626

  Kumar, Sunil ^a   Pippy, Richard J ^a   Acar, Erdem ^b   Kim, Nam H ^a   Haftka, Raphael T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b TOBB UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Approximation; Probabilistic design; Reliability based optimization; Risk allocation; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION; PROBABILISTIC DESIGN; RELIABILITY-BASED OPTIMIZATION; RISK ALLOCATION; UNCERTAINTY;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RANDOM VARIABLES; RECONSTRUCTION (STRUCTURAL); RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISKS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 67649538417     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: 16151488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00158-008-0310-z     Document Type: Article

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