Abstract: Reliability based design optimization has received increasing attention for satisfying high requirements on reliability and safety in structure design. However, in practical engineering design, there ...

Abstract: Reliability and robustness are two main attributes of design under uncertainty. Hence, it is necessary to combine reliability-based design and robust design at the design stage. In this paper, ...

Abstract: Reliability-based design (RBD) ensures high reliability with a reduced cost. Most of the RBD methodologies do not account for maintenance and warranty actions. As a result, the RBD result may ...

Abstract: A polynomial function supervising fuzzy sliding mode control (PSFαSMC), which embedded with skyhook surface method, is proposed for the ride comfort of a vehicle semi-active suspension. The ...

Abstract: Model validation metrics have been developed to provide a quantitative measure that characterizes the agreement between predictions and observations. In engineering design, the metrics become useful ...

Abstract: Time-variant reliability problems have been studied widely by scholars recently, and they usually are solved on the basis of the outcrossing rate. The common method to calculate the outcrossing rate involves a static ...

Abstract: Statistical sensitivity analysis (SSA) is an effective methodology to examine the impact of variations in model inputs on the variations in model outputs at either a prior or posterior design ...