Reliability-based optimization with discrete and continuous decision and random variables

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 130, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 0614011-06140113

  McDonald, Mark ^a   Mahadevan, Sankaran ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decoupled RBDO; First order reliability method; Mixed integer optimization; Optimization; Reliability based design; Single loop RBDO; System reliability

Indexed keywords

BRANCH AND BOUND METHOD; COMPUTATION THEORY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MACHINE DESIGN; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

DECOUPLED RELIABILITY-BASED DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; FIRST ORDER RELIABILITY METHODS; MIXED INTEGER OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMISATIONS; RELIABILITY BASED DESIGN; RELIABILITY-BASED DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; SINGLE LOOP; SINGLE LOOP RELIABILITY-BASED DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; SYSTEM RELIABILITY;

RANDOM VARIABLES;

EID: 77955187432     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2898873     Document Type: Article

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