Abstract: Reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) algorithms typically assume a designer's prior knowledge of the objective function along with its explicit mathematical formula and the probability distributions of random design ...

Abstract: With the increasing design dimensionality, it is more difficult to solve multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) problems. Many MDO decomposition strategies have been developed to reduce the dimensionality. Those ...

Abstract: The recently developed metamodelbased decomposition strategy relies on quantifying the variable correlations of blackbox functions so that highdimensional problems are decomposed to smaller subproblems, before performing ...