Purpose As an advanced calculation methodology, reliability-based multidisciplinary design
optimization (RBMDO) has been widely acknowledged for the design problems of modern …

As the principal means of oil and natural gas transportation, oil and gas pipeline systems
suffer from common corrosion problems, accurate corrosion prediction of oil and gas …

To improve the computing accuracy and efficiency of system reliability evaluation for
aeroengine cooling blades, by fusing the benefits of multivariate ensembles model (ME) into …

The durability and simplicity of the programming of meta-heuristic algorithms make them
important in the optimization field. This paper presents a novel application for double cracks …

In structural reliability analysis, robust and efficient sampling methods that address low
failure probabilities are vital challenges. In this paper, a novel dynamical adaptive enhanced …

Computing the sensitivity vector in the traditional first order reliability method may provide
inaccurate reliability outcomes for discrete performance functions and inefficient …

Introducing random defects is a type of the dominant causes of fatigue scatter of additive
manufacturing (AM) materials. The fracture mechanics-based models oversimplify the …

For structural reliability analysis with low failure probability, traditional simulation methods
are time consuming approaches, which is a great challenge for estimating the failure …

Additive manufacturing (AM) has attracted many attentions because of its design freedom
and rapid manufacturing; however, it is still limited in actual application due to the existing …

The classical reliability analysis methods, due to the ever-increasing complexity of
engineering structure, may lead to higher and higher calculation errors and costs. The …