Structural Design Optimization Considering Uncertainties : Structures & Infrastructures Book , Vol. 1, Series, Series Editor: Dan M. Frangopol (Hardcover)

Part A. Robust design optimization (RDO)
A1. Basic aspects on RDO

• 1: Evaluation and Maximization of Robustness of Trusses by using Semidefinite Programming
  Yoshihiro Kanno and Izuru Takewaki.
• 2: A Taylor expansion approach to the design optimization of structures with randomness
  Ioannis Doltsinis, Zhan Kang.

A2. Theoretical advances on RDO

• 3: Cost-Benefit Optimization and Risk Acceptability for Maintained Structures
  R. Rackwitz and A. Joanni.
• 4: Efficient robust-design optimization involving dynamic reliability problems Alexandros A. Taflanidis and James L. Beck.
• 5: Robust design optimization using possibility theory
  Byeng Dong Youn.
• 6: Bridging the gap between robust and reliability-based design optimization with the saddlepoint expansion
  Jorge E. Hurtado.

A3. Application driven chapters on RDO

• 7: Info-gap robust design of passively controlled structures with load and model uncertainties
  Izuru Takewaki and Yakov Ben-Haim.
• 8: Efficient computing techniques for structural reliability-based robust design optimization Nikos D. Lagaros, Vaggelis Plevris, and Yiannis Tsompanakis.
  

Part B. Reliability-based design optimization (RBDO)
B1. Basic aspects on RBDO

• 9: Reliability-based structural optimization
  Alaa Chateauneuf.
• 10: Efficient approaches for system reliability-based design optimization
  Zissimos P. Mourelatos, Jinghong Liang and Efstratios Nikolaidis.

B2. Theoretical advancements and academicapplications of RBDO

• 11: Numerical and semi-numerical methods for reliability-based design optimization
  G. Kharmanda.
• 12: Non-probabilistic design optimization with insufficient data using possibility and evidence theories
  Zissimos P. Mourelatos and Jun Zhou.
• 13: Efficient stochastic methods in RBDO
  Alaa Chateauneuf.
• 14: Reliability analysis and reliability based design optimization using the moment method
  Byung Man Kwak, Sang Hoon Lee and Jae Sung Huh.
• 15: Analytical target cascading in optimal design of decomposed systems under uncertainty
  M. Kokkolaras and P.Y. Papalambros.
• 16: Reliability based topology optimization using the hybrid cellular automaton method
  Neal M. Patel, John E. Renaud, Harish Agarwal and Andres Tovar.
• 17: Sample average approximations in Reliability-based structural optimization: Theory and applications
  J.O. Royset, E. Polak.

B3. Application-driven chapters on RBDO

• 18: Design optimization of stochastic dynamic systems by algebraic reduced order models
  G. Weickum, M. Allen, K. Maute and D. Frangopol.
• 19: Reliability-based damage tolerance methodology
  Y-T. Wu.
  20: Overview of reliability analysis and design capabilities in DAKOTA with Application to Shape Optimization of MEMS
• M.S. Eldred, S.A. Mitchell, B. J. Bichon and B. M. Adams.