# RELIABILITY-BASED DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF SHELLS WITH UNCERTAIN GEOMETRY USING ADAPTIVE KRIGING METAMODELS

Abstract : Optimal design under uncertainty has gained much attention in the past ten years due to the ever increasing need for manufacturers to build robust systems at the lowest cost. Reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) allows the analyst to minimize some cost function while ensuring some minimal performances cast as admissible failure probabilities for a set of performance functions. In order to address real-world engineering problems in which the performance is assessed through computational models (e.g. finite element models in structural mechanics) metamodeling techniques have been developed in the past decade. This paper introduces adaptive Kriging surrogate models to solve the RBDO problem. The latter is cast in an augmented space that sums up'' the range of the design space and the aleatory uncertainty in the design parameters and the environmental conditions. The surrogate model is used (i) for evaluating robust estimates of the failure probabilities (and for enhancing the computational experimental design by adaptive sampling) in order to achieve the requested accuracy and (ii) for applying a gradient-based optimization algorithm to get optimal values of the design parameters. The approach is applied to the optimal design of ring-stiffened cylindrical shells used in submarine engineering under uncertain geometric imperfections. For this application the performance of the structure is related to buckling which is addressed here by means of a finite element solution based on the asymptotic numerical method.
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Vincent Dubourg, Jean-Marc Bourinet, Bruno Sudret. RELIABILITY-BASED DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF SHELLS WITH UNCERTAIN GEOMETRY USING ADAPTIVE KRIGING METAMODELS. [Research Report] ETH Zurich, Chair of Risk, Safety and Uncertainty Quantifi- cation, Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland. 2017. ⟨hal-01571393⟩

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