Abstract: A unified framework for robust and reliability-based structural topology optimization, considering structural model and loading uncertainties, is presented using a continuous adjoint formulation. The topology optimization ...

Abstract: A unified framework for robust and reliability-based structural topology optimization, considering structural model and loading uncertainties, is presented using a continuous adjoint formulation. The topology optimization ...

Abstract: In this paper, the basic methodology for the fatigue reliability assessment of randomly vibrating multidegree-of-freedom systems is presented within the coupled response-degradation model. The fatigue process in the system ...

Abstract: This paper presents a new Bayesian approach for estimating input and state in linear structures using response-only measurements. The proposed approach benefits from a modally reduced state-space model, which circumvents ...

Abstract: A new asymptotic expansion is applied to approximate reliability integrals. The asymptotic approximation reduces the problem of evaluating a multidimensional probability integral to solving an unconstrained minimization ...

Abstract: Model updating, the process of inferring a model from data, is prone to the adverse effects of modeling error, which is caused by simplification and idealization assumptions in the mathematical models. In this study, an ...