Design optimization with discrete and continuous variables of aleatory and epistemic uncertainties

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 0310061-0310068

  Huang, Hong Zhong ^a   Zhang, Xudong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Aleatory uncertainty; Continuous and discrete variables; Epistemic uncertainty; Random fuzzy continuous discrete variables design optimization; Sequential optimization and reliability assessment

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; MACHINE DESIGN; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

ALEATORY UNCERTAINTY; CONTINUOUS VARIABLES; CONTINUOUS-DISCRETE; DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; DISCRETE VARIABLES; EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTIES; RANDOM/FUZZY CONTINUOUS/DISCRETE VARIABLE DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY ASSESSMENTS; SEQUENTIAL OPTIMIZATION; SEQUENTIAL OPTIMIZATION AND RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77950571159     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3066712     Document Type: Article

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