A simulation-based RBDO method using probabilistic re-analysis and a trust region approach

Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference 2009, DETC2009

Volumn 5, Issue PART B, 2010, Pages 1149-1159

  Kuczera, Ramon C ^a   Mourelatos, Zissimos P ^a   Nikolaidis, Efstratios ^b   Li, Jing ^a  

^a OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRADIENT BASED; IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; INPUT RANDOM VARIABLES; MC SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; MULTIPLE FAILURES; OPTIMIZATION APPROACH; OPTIMIZERS; REANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY DERIVATIVES; SIMULATION-BASED; SYSTEM RELIABILITY; TRUST REGION; TRUST-REGION APPROACH; VIBRATION ABSORBER;

CHANNEL CAPACITY; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; MACHINE DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM VARIABLES;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 77953734611     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2009-86704     Document Type: Conference Paper

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