Abstract: The bolted flange joint is an important source of nonlinearity in dynamical analysis of launch vehicles, which will lead to both longitudinal and transversal responses simultaneously subject to transversal dynamic loads, ...

Abstract: Face gear drive has been widely investigated in the aviation field as a power split device on the helicopter main reducer. However, high-speed and heavy-load condition makes the face gear prone to tooth surface pitting, ...

Abstract: The moment method is commonly used in reliability analysis, in which the maximum entropy method (MEM) and polynomial fitting (PF) have been widely used due to their advantages in accuracy and efficiency, respectively. In ...

Abstract: The estimation of the statistical moments is widely involved in the industrial application, whose accuracy affects the reliability analysis result considerably. In this study, a novel hybrid dimension-reduction method based ...

Abstract: Reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) is receiving more attention from researchers because it can help to minimize cost reasonably in practical engineering. A large number of methods have been proposed to solve RBDO ...