Lightweight design of vehicle front-end structure: Contributions of multiple surrogates

International Journal of Vehicle Design

Volumn 57, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 124-147

  Pan, Feng ^a   Zhu, Ping ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Crashworthiness; Iterative optimization; Multiple surrogates; Sobol's method; Vehicle lightweight design

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; CRASHWORTHINESS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LIGHT WEIGHT VEHICLES; OPTIMIZATION; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; FRONT-END STRUCTURES; FUNCTION APPROXIMATION; ITERATIVE OPTIMIZATION; LIGHTWEIGHT DESIGN; MULTIPLE SURROGATES; SOBOL'S METHOD; SURROGATE MODEL;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 84857145035     PISSN: 01433369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJVD.2011.044718     Document Type: Article

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