Journal
JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL DESIGN
Volume 132, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
ASME
DOI: 10.1115/1.4000760
Keywords
multibody systems; tolerancing; uncertainty; reliability-based design optimization; support vector machines; design of experiments
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- National Science Foundation [CMMI-0800117]
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This paper introduces a new approach for the optimal geometric design and tolerancing of multibody systems. The approach optimizes both the nominal system dimensions and the associated tolerances by solving a reliability-based design optimization (RDBO) problem under the assumption of truncated normal distributions of the geometric properties. The solution is obtained by first constructing the explicit boundaries of the failure regions (limit state function) using a support vector machine, combined with adaptive sampling and uniform design of experiments. The use of explicit boundaries enables the treatment of systems with discontinuous or binary behaviors. The explicit boundaries also allow for an efficient calculation of the probability of failure using importance sampling. The probability of failure is subsequently approximated over the whole design space (the nominal system dimensions and the associated tolerances), thus making the solution of the RBDO problem straightforward. The proposed approach is applied to the optimization of a web cutter mechanism. [DOI: 10.1115/1.4000760]
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