Reliability-based design optimization of imperfect shells using adaptive kriging meta-models

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2012-01-18

arxiv.org/abs/1201.3935v2

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The optimal and robust design of structures has gained much attention in the past ten years due to the ever increasing need for manufacturers to build robust systems at the lowest cost. Reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) allows the analyst to minimize some cost function while ensuring some minimal performances cast as admissible probabilities of failure for a set of performance functions. In order to address real-world problems in which the performance is assessed through computational models (e.g. large scale finite element models) meta-modelling techniques have been developed in the past decade. This paper introduces adaptive kriging surrogate models to solve the RBDO problem. The latter is cast in an augmented space that "sums up" the range of the design space and the aleatory uncertainty in the design parameters and the environmental conditions. Thus the surrogate model is used (i) for evaluating robust estimates of the probabilities of failure (and for enhancing the computational experimental design by adaptive sampling) in order to achieve the requested accuracy and (ii) for applying the gradient-based optimization algorithm. The approach is applied to the optimal design of imperfect stiffened cylinder shells used in submarine engineering. For this application the performance of the structure is related to buckling which is addressed here by means of the asymptotic numerical method.

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