Reliability-based robust design optimization of vehicle components, Part II: Case studies

Abstract

The reliability-based optimization, the reliability-based sensitivity analysis and robust design method are employed to propose an effective approach for reliability-based robust design optimization of vehicle components in Part I. Applications of the method are further discussed for reliability-based robust optimization of vehicle components in this paper. Examples of axles,torsion bar, coil and composite springs are illustrated for numerical investigations. Results have shown the proposed method is an efficient method for reliability-based robust design optimization of vehicle components.

Keywords

vehicle axles and springs / reliability-based design optimization / reliability-based sensitivity analysis / multi-objective optimization / robust design

References

[1] Zhang Y. Reliability-based robust design optimization of vehicle components, Part I: Theory. Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering, 2015,10(2): 138–144<?Pub Caret?>

Acknowledgments

I would like to express the appreciation to 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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2014 Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg