文档介绍：Composite Structures 92 (2010) 244–253
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Reliability-based design and optimization of adaptive marine structures
. Young a,*, . Baker c, . Motley b
a Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
b Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
c Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Article history: The objectives of this work are to quantify the influence of material and operational uncertainties on the
Available online 28 July 2009 performance of self-adaptive marine rotors, and to develop a reliability-based design and optimization
methodology for adaptive marine structures. Using a previously validated 3D fluid–structure interaction
Keywords: model, performance functions are obtained and used to generate characteristic response surfaces. A first-
Reliability-based design and optimization order reliability method is used to evaluate the influence of uncertainties in material and load parameters
Adaptive marine structure and thus optimize the design parameters. The results demonstrate the viability of the proposed reliabil-
Fluid–structure interaction
ity-based design and opt