Adaptive response surface method supporting finite element calculations: an application to power electronic module reliability assessment

Carmen Martin (1) , Alexandre Micol (2) , François Pérès (1)

1 LGP - Laboratoire Génie de Production
2 Phimeca Engineering SA

In this paper a method is proposed, introducing an adaptive response surface allowing, on the one hand, to minimize the number of calls to finite element codes for the assessment of the parameters of the response surface and, on the other hand, to refine the solution around the design point by iterating through the procedure. This method is implemented in a parallel environment to optimize the calculation time with respect of the architecture of a computational cluster.

Mots clés: Reliability analysis; Finite element modelling -Response surfaces; Design of experiments; Power electronics

Domaines: Génie des procédés; Electronique

Carmen Martin, Alexandre Micol, François Pérès. Adaptive response surface method supporting finite element calculations: an application to power electronic module reliability assessment. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 2016, 54 ( 6), pp.1455-1468. ⟨10.1007/s00158-016-1578-z⟩. ⟨hal-01519952⟩