System reliability based vehicle design for crashworthiness and effects of various uncertainty reduction measures

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 311-325

  Acar, Erdem ^a   Solanki, Kiran ^b  

^a TOBB UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automobile crashworthiness; System reliability; Uncertainty reduction; Weight saving

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MATERIAL PROPERTY; PROBABILISTIC CONSTRAINTS; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; RELIABILITY ALLOCATION; RELIABILITY-BASED DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; SINGLE COMPONENTS; STRUCTURAL WEIGHT; SYSTEM RELIABILITY; SYSTEM-RELIABILITY-BASED DESIGN; UNCERTAINTY REDUCTION; VEHICLE DESIGN; WEIGHT SAVING;

AUTOMOBILES; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CRASHWORTHINESS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MACHINE DESIGN; STRUCTURAL MEMBERS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 70349627285     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: 16151488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00158-008-0327-3     Document Type: Article

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