Journal
JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 27, Issue 4, Pages 1021-1029Publisher
KOREAN SOC MECHANICAL ENGINEERS
DOI: 10.1007/s12206-013-0227-3
Keywords
Reliability based design optimization; Reliability constraint; High order response surface method; Reliability sensitivity analysis
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11102084]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [NS2012078]
- Scientific Research Foundation in NUAA [56YAH11006]
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To reduce the computational effort of reliability-based design optimization (RBDO), the response surface method (RSM) has been widely used to evaluate reliability constraints. We propose an efficient methodology for solving RBDO problems based on an improved high order response surface method (HORSM) that takes advantage of an efficient sampling method, Hermite polynomials and uncertainty contribution concept to construct a high order response surface function with cross terms for reliability analysis. The sampling method generates supporting points from Gauss-Hermite quadrature points, which can be used to approximate response surface function without cross terms, to identify the highest order of each random variable and to determine the significant variables connected with point estimate method. The cross terms between two significant random variables are added to the response surface function to improve the approximation accuracy. Integrating the nested strategy, the improved HORSM is explored in solving RBDO problems. Additionally, a sampling based reliability sensitivity analysis method is employed to reduce the computational effort further when design variables are distributional parameters of input random variables. The proposed methodology is applied on two test problems to validate its accuracy and efficiency. The proposed methodology is more efficient than first order reliability method based RBDO and Monte Carlo simulation based RBDO, and enables the use of RBDO as a practical design tool.
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