Reliability-based structural design: a case of aircraft floor grid layout optimization

In this thesis, several Reliability-based Design Optimization (RBDO) methods and algorithms for airplane floor grid layout optimization are proposed. A general RBDO process is proposed and validated by an example. Copula as a mathematical method to model random variable correlations is introduced to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chen, Qing
Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2011
Subjects:
MCS
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1853/39630