Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-2023
DOI
10.3390/designs7040096
Publication Title
Designs
Volume
7
Issue
4
Pages
96 (25 pp.)
Abstract
The low order Taylor’s series expansion was employed in this study to estimate the reliability indices of the failure criteria for reliability-based design optimization of a linear static structure subjected to random loads and boundary conditions. By taking the advantage of the linear superposition principle, only a few analyses of the structure subjected to unit-loads are needed through the entire optimization process to produce acceptable results. Two structural examples are presented in this study to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach for reliability-based design optimization: one deals with a truss structure subjected to random multiple point constraints, and the other conducts shape design optimization of a plane stress problem subjected to random point loads. Both examples were formulated and solved by the finite element method. The first example used the penalty method to reformulate the multiple point constraints as external loads, while the second example introduced an approach to propagate the uncertainty linearly from the nodal displacement vector to the nodal von Mises stress vector. The final designs obtained from the reliability-based design optimization were validated through Monte Carlo simulation. This validation process was completed with only four unit-load analyses for the first example and two for the second example.
Rights
Copyright: © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).
Original Publication Citation
Haupin, R. J., & Hou, G. J. W. (2023). A unit-load approach for reliability-based Design optimization of linear structures under random loads and boundary conditions. Designs, 7(4), Article 96. https://doi.org/10.3390/designs7040096
ORCID
0000-0002-7352-1099 (Hou)
Repository Citation
Haupin, Robert James and Hou, Gene Jean-Win, "A Unit-Load Approach for Reliability-Based Design Optimization of Linear Structures under Random Loads and Boundary Conditions" (2023). Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Faculty Publications. 133.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/mae_fac_pubs/133