Application of Dynamic Reliability Theory to Probabilistic Structural Design.

Reliability-Based Optimization and Application of Fuzzy Theory for Robust Structural Design

This paper present two robust design strategies in structural system that simultaneously optimize the design goal-performance and minimize its performance variability. As a result, the maximization of a predefined goal-reliability indicator is equivalent to the optimization of the goal-performance and the performance variation concurrently. Fuzzy set theory is applied to formulate another way o...

Reliability - based Structural Design

Reliability based structural design

According to ISO 2394, structures shall be designed, constructed and maintained in such a way that they are suited for their use during the design working life in an economic way. To fulfil this requirement one needs insight into the risk and reliability under expected and non-expected actions. A key role in this respect is played by the structural reliability analysis (SRA). In this paper the ...

Structural Control of Probabilistic Boolean Networks and Its Application to Design of Real-Time Pricing Systems

In this paper, a new control method for a probabilistic Boolean network (PBN) is proposed. A PBN is widely used as a model of complex systems such as gene regulatory networks. For a PBN, the structural control problem is newly formulated. In this problem, a discrete probability distribution appeared in a PBN is controlled by the continuous-valued input. In the proposed solution method, using a ...

Application of the Sequential Optimization and Reliability Assessment Method to Structural Design Problems

The use of probabilistic optimization in structural design applications is hindered by the huge computational cost associated with evaluating probabilistic characteristics, where the computationally expensive finite element method (FEM) is often used for simulating design performance. In this paper, a Sequential Optimization and Reliability Assessment (SORA) method with analytical derivatives i...