Quantifying “Cliffs” in Design Space
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Purpose: This paper studies the regions of parameter space of engineering design in which performance is sensitive to design parameters. Some of these parameters (for example, the dimensions and compositions of components) constitute the design, but others are intrinsic properties of materials or Nature. The paper is concerned with narrow regions of parameter space, “cliffs”, in which performance (some measure of the final state of a system, such as ignition or non-ignition of a flammable gas, or failure or non-failure of a ductile material subject to tension) is a sensitive function of the parameters. In these regions performance is also sensitive to uncertainties in the parameters. This is particularly important for intrinsically indeterminate systems, those whose performance is ∗email:[email protected], Tel: 314-935-6202, Facs: 314-935-6219
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