Modeling, analysis, and optimization under uncertainties: a review

E Acar, G Bayrak, Y Jung, I Lee, P Ramu… - Structural and …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Design optimization of structural and multidisciplinary systems under uncertainty
has been an active area of research due to its evident advantages over deterministic design …

A survey on approaches for reliability-based optimization

MA Valdebenito, GI Schuëller - Structural and Multidisciplinary …, 2010 - Springer
Reliability-based Optimization is a most appropriate and advantageous methodology for
structural design. Its main feature is that it allows determining the best design solution (with …

[HTML][HTML] A new adaptive sequential sampling method to construct surrogate models for efficient reliability analysis

NC Xiao, MJ Zuo, C Zhou - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2018 - Elsevier
Surrogate models are often used to alleviate the computational burden for structural systems
with expensively time-consuming simulations. In this paper, a new adaptive surrogate model …

[HTML][HTML] Computational methods in optimization considering uncertainties–an overview

GI Schuëller, HA Jensen - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2008 - Elsevier
This article presents a brief survey on some of the most relevant developments in the field of
optimization under uncertainty. In particular, the scope and the relevance of the papers …

A comparative study of uncertainty propagation methods for black-box-type problems

SH Lee, W Chen - Structural and multidisciplinary optimization, 2009 - Springer
A wide variety of uncertainty propagation methods exist in literature; however, there is a lack
of good understanding of their relative merits. In this paper, a comparative study on the …

Structural reliability analysis of wind turbines: A review

Z Jiang, W Hu, W Dong, Z Gao, Z Ren - Energies, 2017 - mdpi.com
The paper presents a detailed review of the state-of-the-art research activities on structural
reliability analysis of wind turbines between the 1990s and 2017. We describe the reliability …

A new efficient simulation method to approximate the probability of failure and most probable point

M Rashki, M Miri, MA Moghaddam - Structural Safety, 2012 - Elsevier
In this paper, a new simulation method for approximating the probability of failure and the
most probable point of failure is proposed. The method works by generating uniformly …

[HTML][HTML] Inverse analysis method using MPP-based dimension reduction for reliability-based design optimization of nonlinear and multi-dimensional systems

I Lee, KK Choi, L Du, D Gorsich - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics …, 2008 - Elsevier
There are two commonly used analytical reliability analysis methods: linear approximation–
first-order reliability method (FORM), and quadratic approximation–second-order reliability …

Structural reliability assessment by local approximation of limit state functions using adaptive Markov chain simulation and support vector regression

H Dai, H Zhang, W Wang, G Xue - Computer‐Aided Civil and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The surrogate model method is widely used in structural reliability analysis to approximate
complex limit state functions. Accurate results can only be obtained when the surrogate …

Sampling-based RBDO using the stochastic sensitivity analysis and dynamic Kriging method

I Lee, KK Choi, L Zhao - Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 2011 - Springer
This paper presents a sampling-based RBDO method using surrogate models. The Dynamic
Kriging (D-Kriging) method is used for surrogate models, and a stochastic sensitivity …