Lin, Po Ting  <br/><br/>
Reliability-based multidisciplinary design optimization using probabilistic gradient-based transformation method  

 - Vol.135(2), Feb 
 - New York  ASME  2013 
 - 1-12p. 
<br/><br/> Recently, solving the complex design optimization problems with design uncertainties has become an important but very challenging task in the communities of reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) and multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO). The MDO algorithms decompose the complex design problem into the hierarchical or nonhierarchical optimization structure and distribute the workloads to each discipline (or subproblem) in the decomposed structure. The coordination of the local responses is crucial for the success of finding the optimal design point. The problem complexity increases dramatically when the existence of the design uncertainties is not negligible. The RBDO algorithms perform the reliability analyses to evaluate the probabilities that the random variables violate the constraints. However, the required reliability analyses build up the degree of complexity. In this paper, the gradient-based transformation method (GTM) is utilized to reduce the complexity of the MDO problems by transforming the design space to multiple single-variate monotonic coordinates along the directions of the constraint gradients.  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mechanical Engineering