Reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) is one of the most crucial techniques in
complex and reliability-critical engineering systems. This has been a research hotspot over …

Metaheuristic algorithms have been widely concerned by scholars because of their global
optimization ability that does not depend on gradient information. In this study, Water Cycle …

When dealing with optimization problems, the introduction of uncertainty will greatly
increase the difficulty of solving the problem. The traditional reliability-based design …

The classical reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) methods, due to the ever
increasing complexity of designs and contingent engineering situations, incur more and …

The kinematic trajectory accuracy reliability is an essential index to evaluate the service
performance of industrial robots. This study proposes a new kinematic trajectory accuracy …

Global sensitivity analysis (GSA), particularly for Sobol index, is a powerful tool to quantify
the variation of model response sourced from the uncertainty of input variables over the …

Time-dependent reliability-based design optimization (TRBDO) has attracted intensive
research attentions in recent years by virtue of its unique ability to allow consideration of …

Reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) plays a vital role in considering the effect of
uncertainties in the optimal design variables on the production reliability. Kriging-assisted …

Efficient assessment of mechanical system reliability subject to arbitrary probability
distributions and dependent input parameters signifies an important yet challenging task. To …

Many engineering systems involve complex implicit performance functions, and evaluating
the failure probability of these systems usually requires time-consuming finite element …