Yongqiang Guo^1,2,*, Zhiyuan Lv³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.134, No.3, pp. 1855-1870, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.022211 - 20 September 2022

Abstract In uncertainty analysis and reliability-based multidisciplinary design and optimization (RBMDO) of engineering structures, the saddlepoint approximation (SA) method can be utilized to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of reliability evaluation. However, the random variables involved in SA should be easy to handle. Additionally, the corresponding saddlepoint equation should not be complicated. Both of them limit the application of SA for engineering problems. The moment method can construct an approximate cumulative distribution function of the performance function based on the first few statistical moments. However, the traditional moment matching method is not very accurate generally. In… More >

Debiao Meng^1,2,3, Shiyuan Yang¹, Tao Lin^4,5,*, Jiapeng Wang¹, Hengfei Yang¹, Zhiyuan Lv¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.132, No.2, pp. 553-568, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.020756 - 15 June 2022

Abstract Actual engineering systems will be inevitably affected by uncertain factors. Thus, the Reliability-Based Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (RBMDO) has become a hotspot for recent research and application in complex engineering system design. The Second-Order/First-Order Mean-Value Saddlepoint Approximate (SOMVSA/FOMVSA) are two popular reliability analysis strategies that are widely used in RBMDO. However, the SOMVSA method can only be used efficiently when the distribution of input variables is Gaussian distribution, which significantly limits its application. In this study, the Gaussian Mixture Model-based Second-Order Mean-Value Saddlepoint Approximation (GMM-SOMVSA) is introduced to tackle above problem. It is integrated with the More >