Abstract: Recent structural failures in buildings, occurring in a progressive way, have raised awareness of the profession toward the need for robustness in structural design. However, systematic approaches for robust design, ...

Abstract: A novel stochastic averaging technique based on a Hilbert transform definition of the oscillator response displacement amplitude is developed. Specifically, a critical step in the conventional stochastic averaging treatment ...

Abstract: Manufacturing tolerances and other uncertainties may play an important role in the performance of parallel manipulators since they can affect the distance to a singular configuration. Motion planning strategies for parallel ...

Abstract: This contribution proposes a strategy for performing fuzzy analysis of linear static systems applying α-level optimization. In order to decrease numerical costs, full system analyses are replaced by a reduced order model ...