Slides for Structural Optimization course

[haftka]

Slides for my Structural Optimization course may be found at www.mae.ufl.edu/haftka/stropt/

click on Class Schedule and then on individual lectures.

[engrzia]

Thanks for the comprehensive notes.

Being novice in the field of Reliability based design optimization, I am looking for some good material about RBDO especially manual examples that demonstrate procedure (data flow) of FORM, SORM, MCS in context of RBDO.

If anyone can post such material I am sure it will be very helpful for students who have interest in this area of research

[Palani Ramu]

Hello,

The following books are good references for FORM, SORM and MCS examples:
1) Melchers, R. E., Structural Reliability Analysis and Prediction, Wiley, New
York, 1999. (Newer editions might be available)

2)Achintya Haldar and Sankaran Mahadevan., Reliability assessment using stochastic finite element analysis, John Wiley and Sons, 2000.

In addition, you might want to refer to the following paper and the references there in for a discussion on RBDO methods and reliability measures:
Safety Factors and Inverse Reliability Measures
P.Ramu, X. Qu, B. Youn, R. T. Haftka and K. Choi

The paper is available for download at:
plaza.ufl.edu/palramu/ and visit the publications menu.

Hope this helps. Welcome to the reliability community!!!

Palani

[kkchoi]

Palani's suggestions are good. The following paper might also help you.

Tu, J. and Choi, K.K., “A New Study on Reliability Based Design Optimization,” ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 121, No. 4, 1999, pp. 557-564.