Abstract: Engineering design problems are studied within a multicriteria optimization and decision-making framework. A methodology is developed that modifies the traditional Pareto preference to model designer’s ...

Abstract: The rapid growth of freight traffic is now taxing a significant number of the U.S. national freight corridors. Additional demand accompanied by trucks over legal weight limits has been accelerating pavement and bridge ...

Abstract: The problem of robust design is treated as a bi-objective optimization problem in which the performance mean and variation are optimized and minimized, respectively. A method for deriving a ...

Abstract: The problem of quantifying uncertainty in the design process is approached indirectly. Nonquantifiable variability resulting from lack of knowledge is treated as epistemic uncertainty and quantifiable ...