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Reliability - based design optimization of uncertain stochastic systems / H. A. Jensen in Journal of engineering mechanics, Vol. 138 N° 1 (Janvier 2012) 

Public ISBD [article]  in Journal of engineering mechanics > Vol. 138 N° 1 (Janvier 2012) . - pp.60-70 Titre : Reliability - based design optimization of uncertain stochastic systems : Gradient - based scheme Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : H. A. Jensen, Auteur ; D. S. Kusanovic, Auteur ; M. A. Valdebenito, Auteur Année de publication : 2012 Article en page(s) : pp.60-70 Note générale : Mécanique appliquée Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Reliability-based  optimization  Uncertain  stochastic  systems  Reliability  analysis  High  dimensions Résumé : A method to carry out reliability-based optimization of uncertain structural systems under stochastic excitation is presented in this paper. The approach is based on a nonlinear interior point algorithm and a line search strategy. The associated reliability problems to be solved during the optimization process are high-dimensional (thousands or more random variables). An advanced Monte Carlo simulation is adopted for the purpose of estimating the corresponding failure probabilities. The gradients of the failure probability functions needed during the design process are estimated by an approach based on the local behavior of the normalized demand functions that define the failure domains. Numerical results show that only a small number of reliability estimates has to be performed during the entire design process. By construction, the design scheme is monotonically convergent; that is, it generates a sequence of steadily improved feasible designs. Example problems that consider a resistant element of a shear building model under ground motion and a nonlinear 11-story building model under earthquake excitation are presented to illustrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the approach reported in this paper. ISSN : 0733-9399 En ligne : http://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/%28ASCE%29EM.1943-7889.0000304 [article] Reliability - based design optimization of uncertain stochastic systems : Gradient - based scheme [texte imprimé] / H. A. Jensen, Auteur ; D. S. Kusanovic, Auteur ; M. A. Valdebenito, Auteur . - 2012 . - pp.60-70. Mécanique appliquée Langues : Anglais (eng) in Journal of engineering mechanics > Vol. 138 N° 1 (Janvier 2012) . - pp.60-70 Mots-clés : Reliability-based  optimization  Uncertain  stochastic  systems  Reliability  analysis  High  dimensions Résumé : A method to carry out reliability-based optimization of uncertain structural systems under stochastic excitation is presented in this paper. The approach is based on a nonlinear interior point algorithm and a line search strategy. The associated reliability problems to be solved during the optimization process are high-dimensional (thousands or more random variables). An advanced Monte Carlo simulation is adopted for the purpose of estimating the corresponding failure probabilities. The gradients of the failure probability functions needed during the design process are estimated by an approach based on the local behavior of the normalized demand functions that define the failure domains. Numerical results show that only a small number of reliability estimates has to be performed during the entire design process. By construction, the design scheme is monotonically convergent; that is, it generates a sequence of steadily improved feasible designs. Example problems that consider a resistant element of a shear building model under ground motion and a nonlinear 11-story building model under earthquake excitation are presented to illustrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the approach reported in this paper. ISSN : 0733-9399 En ligne : http://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/%28ASCE%29EM.1943-7889.0000304