Reliability-based robust design optimization of vehicle components, Part I: Theory

Abstract

The reliability-based design optimization, the reliability sensitivity analysis and robust design method are employed to present a practical and effective approach for reliability-based robust design optimization of vehicle components. A procedure for reliability-based robust design optimization of vehicle components is proposed. Application of the method is illustrated by reliability-based robust design optimization of axle and spring. Numerical results have shown that the proposed method can be trusted to perform reliability-based robust design optimization of vehicle components.

Keywords

vehicle components / reliability-based design optimization / reliability-based sensitivity analysis / multi-objective optimization / robust design

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Acknowledgments

I would like to appreciate the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51135003) and the Major State Basic Research Development Program of China (973 Program) (Grant No. 2014CB046303) for supporting this research.

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