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The Evaluation Of Sequential Optimization And Reliability Analysis, Guannan Liu
The Evaluation Of Sequential Optimization And Reliability Analysis, Guannan Liu
Masters Theses
"Sequential Optimization and Reliability Assessment (SORA) has been used for more than one decade for reliability-based design (RBD), but comprehensive theoretical studies on its performance have not been conducted. Further investigations on its performance are still needed. The objective of this thesis is to evaluate the performance of SORA for various testing problems. The performance of SORA evaluated in this thesis includes (1) accuracy, (2) efficiency, and (3) convergence behavior or robustness with numerical testing problems. SORA is evaluated with comparison with other major RBD methodologies. The testing problems are in different scales (numbers of design variables, random variables, and …