The integrally stiffened shells possess the advantages of high specific strength, high specific
rigidity and excellent sealing performance, which have been widely used in the load …

To relieve the computational cost of design evaluations using expensive finite element (FE)
simulations, surrogate models have been widely applied in computer-aided engineering …

The rapid collaborative optimization (CO) has an increasing demand for high-fidelity
surrogate models. However, the traditional surrogate model cannot be applied to all working …

The ship hull form optimization using the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) method is
increasingly employed in the early design of a ship, as an optimal ship hull form can obtain …

Fixed bollards are very significant elements in providing urban roadside safety. These
structures, called passive systems, allow pedestrians and disabled people to use sidewalks …

An efficient reliability-based design optimization method for the support structures of
monopile offshore wind turbines is proposed herein. First, parametric finite element analysis …

An ensemble of surrogate models with high robustness and accuracy can effectively avoid
the difficult choice of surrogate model. However, most of the existing ensembles of surrogate …

Longitudinal barriers are considered as passive safety systems designed to shield hazards
located at roadsides against motor vehicle impacts. Since these barriers are manmade …

Along with the advantages provided by the material and ease of assembly/disassembly, the
ease of repair provided by minimum deformation after a collision and its sustainability …

This paper introduces a sequential approximate optimization method that combines the finite
element method (FEM), dynamic differential evolution (DDE), and artificial neural network …