Design Optimization With Discrete and Continuous Variables of Aleatory and Epistemic Uncertainties
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Reliability based design optimization has received increasing attention for satisfying high requirements on reliability and safety in structure design. However, in practical engineering design, there are both continuous and discrete design variables. Moreover, both aleatory uncertainty and epistemic uncertainty may associate with design variables. This paper proposes the formulation of random/fuzzy continuous/discrete variables design optimization (RFCDV-DO) and two different approaches for uncertainty analysis (probability/possibility analysis). A method named random/fuzzy sequential optimization and reliability assessment is proposed based on the idea of sequential optimization and reliability assessment to improve efficiency in solving RFCDV-DO problems. An engineering design problem is utilized to demonstrate the approaches and the efficiency of the proposed method. DOI: 10.1115/1.3066712
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