Journal
STRUCTURAL AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY OPTIMIZATION
Volume 56, Issue 6, Pages 1247-1257Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00158-017-1717-1
Keywords
Heat conduction problem; Fuzzy uncertainty; Reliability analysis and optimization; Interval ranking strategy; Subinterval perturbation method
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Funding
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- 111 Project [B07009]
- National Natural Science Foundation of PR China [11432002]
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Engineering fuzzy heat conduction problem with subjective uncertainties in input parameters constitutes a significant challenge. Based on fuzzy and interval theory, this paper presents novel numerical methods to efficiently identify the effect of fuzzy uncertainty on the system reliability analysis and optimization design. Firstly using the interval ranking strategy, the interval safety possibility in the transition state can be precisely quantified, and the eventual fuzzy safety possibility is calculated by integral operation. Then a fuzzy reliability-based optimization model is established with considerable computational cost caused by the two-layer nested loop. In order to improve the computational efficiency, a subinterval perturbation method based on the first-order Taylor series is presented to replace the inner loop. Comparing numerical results with traditional reliability model, two numerical examples are provided to evidence the superiority of proposed model and method for fuzzy reliability analysis and optimization in practical engineering.
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