Structural Design Optimization Considering Uncertainties: Structures & Infrastructures Book , Vol. 1, Series, Series Editor: Dan M. Frangopol

by Tsompanakis; Yannis

• ISBN13: 9780415452601
• ISBN10: 0415452600
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134055050
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-24
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Typically, uncertainties play a dominant role during the design and optimization procedure of structures and products. This book presents the latest research findings in the scientific field of structural optimization considering uncertainties. The selected contributions deal with the use of probabilistic methods for the optimal design of different types of structures and various considerations of uncertainties. This new volume is a "multi-collective" book of twenty-one, high-quality and self-contained chapters, which present state-of-the-art theoretical advances and applications in various fields of probabilistic computational mechanics.

Table of Contents

A Reliability-based design optimization (RBDO)

Principles of reliability-based design optimization

Reliability-based optimization of engineering structures

Efficient approaches for system reliability-based design optimization

Nondeterministic formulations of analytical target cascading for decomposition-based design optimization under uncertainty

Design optimization of stochastic dynamic systems by algebraic reduced order models

Stochastic system design optimization using stochastic simulation

Numerical and semi-numerical methods for reliability-based design optimization

Advances in solution methods for reliability-based design optimization

Non-probabilistic design optimization with insufficient data using possibility and evidence theories

Reliability analysis and reliability based design optimization using moment methods

A decoupled approach to reliability based topology optimization for structural synthesis

Sample average approximations in reliability-based structural optimization: Theory and applications

Cost-benefit optimization for maintained structures

A Reliability-Based Maintenance Optimization Methodoloy

Overview of reliability analysis and design capabilities in DAKOTA with Application to Shape Optimization of MEMS

Robust design optimization (RDO)

Structural robustness and its relationship to reliability

Maximum Robustness Design of Trusses via Semidefinite Programming

A Taylor expansion approach to the design optimization of structures with randomness

Info-gap robust design of passively controlled structures with load and model uncertainties

Genetic algorithms and structural design using convex models of uncertainty

Metamodel-based computing techniques for solving structural optimization problems considering uncertainties

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