• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.213-224
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• 2001

확률론적 구조설계 최적화는 구조물의 역학적 특성이나 하중의 불확실성이나 임의성과 같은 변동성을 정량적이고 합리적으로 고려할 수 있다는 점에서 기존의 전통적인 확정론적 최적화와 비교된다. 확률론적 최적화의 방법론으로는 개선된 일계이차모멘트법을 이용하는 신뢰도지수에 기반한 접근법(MPFP search)이 널리 알려져 있으며, 최근 목표성능치에 기반한 접근법(MPTP search)이 새롭게 제안되었다. 본 논문에서는 이들 두 가지 접근법에 대한 정식화를 수행하고, 특히 탐색과정에서 소모적인 반복계산을 발견하고 제거하는 알고리즘을 제시하였다. 예제에서 두 접근법에 의한 확률론적 최적화를 수행하고 구조설계 최적화의 관점에서 두 접근법의 장단점을 비교·검토하였다.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제30권3A호
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• pp.193-200
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• 2010

구조물을 설계함에 있어서 작용하중, 재료특성 및 제작오차 등의 불확실성을 고려하여 안전성을 확보함과 동시에 경제적 효율성을 고려해야 한다. 이에 대한 가장 합리적인 해결방안으로서, 불확실성과 경제성을 동시에 고려하는 시스템 신뢰도 기반 최적설계 분야에 대한 관심이 증대되었으며 이를 구조물 설계에 적용하기 위한 많은 시도가 이루어졌다. 기존의 확정론적 최적설계와는 다르게 시스템 신뢰도 기반 최적설계는 요소 확률구속조건 및 시스템 확률구속조건에 대한 평가를 수행해야 한다. 하지만, 요소 신뢰도 지수 및 시스템 신뢰도 지수를 매 확률구속조건을 평가할 때마다 산정해야 하므로 대형구조해석이 필요한 경우에는 과도한 계산시간이 요구된다. 따라서, 대형구조해석을 필요로 하는 경우에 대하여 보다 효율적인 SRBDO 알고리즘 개발이 필요하다고 할 수 있다. 이 연구에서는 성능치 접근법을 이용하여 보다 더 안정적이고 효율적인 시스템 신뢰도 기반 최적설계 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 신뢰도 기반 최적설계에 효과적으로 적용된 성능치 접근법은 직접적으로 신뢰도 지수 및 파괴확률을 산정할 수 없어 시스템 신뢰도 기반 최적설계에는 적용할 수 없는 단점이 있다. 이러한 단점을 극복하기 위해서 시스템 신뢰도 기반 최적설계 알고리즘을 요소 신뢰도 해석만을 수행하는 신뢰도 기반 최적설계 부분과 시스템 신뢰도 해석만을 수행하는 신뢰도 기반 최적설계 부분으로 나누어, 요소 신뢰도 해석만을 수행하는 신뢰도 기반 최적설계에 성능치 접근법을 적용하였다. 시스템 신뢰도 지수가 목표 시스템 신뢰도 지수를 만족할 때까지 각 요소 한계상태에 대한 목표 신뢰도 지수를 변경하면서 신뢰도 기반 최적설계를 수행하였다. 수학적 문제 및 트러스 문제에 대하여 제안된 방법을 적용한 결과, 수렴성 및 효율성 측면에서 우수한 성능을 보여줌을 확인하였다.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.1130-1135
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• 2003

The need to increase the reliability of a structural system has been significantly brought in the procedure of real designs to consider, for instance, the material properties or geometric dimensions that reveal a random or incompletely known nature. Reliability based design optimization of a real system now becomes an emerging technique to achieve reliability, robustness and safety of these problems. Finite element analysis program and the reliability analysis program are necessary to evaluate the responses and the probabilities of failure of the system, respectively. Moreover, integration of these programs is required during the procedure of reliability based design optimization. It is well known that reliability based design optimization can often have so many local minima that it cannot converge to the specified probability of failure. To overcome this problem, barrier function method in reliability based design optimization is suggested. To illustrate the proposed formulation, reliability based design optimization of a bracket is performed. AMV and FORM are employed for reliability analysis and their optimization results are compared based on the accuracy and efficiency.

• 한국생산제조학회지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.691-697
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• 2010

Reliability-based topology optimization (RBTO) is to get an optimal topology satisfying uncertainties of design variables. In this study, reliability-based topology optimization method is applied to the inner reinforcement of vehicle's hood based on BESO. A multi-objective topology optimization technique was implemented to obtain optimal topology of the inner reinforcement of the hood. considering the static stiffness of bending and torsion as well as natural frequency. Performance measure approach (PMA), which has probabilistic constraints that are formulated in terms of the reliability index, is adopted to evaluate the probabilistic constraints. To evaluate the obtained optimal topology by RBTO, it is compared with that of DTO of the inner reinforcement of the hood. It is found that the more suitable topology is obtained through RBTO than DTO even though the final volume of RBTO is a little bit larger than that of DTO. From the result, multiobjective optimization technique based on the BESO can be applied very effectively in topology optimization for vehicle's hood reinforcement considering the static stiffness of bending and torsion as well as natural frequency.

• 한국생산제조학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.529-538
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• 2010

This paper presents a reliability-based topology optimization (RBTO) based on bidirectional evolutionary structural optimization (BESO). In design of a structure, uncertain conditions such as material property, operational load and dimensional variation should be considered. Deterministic topology optimization (DTO) is performed without considering the uncertainties related to the design variables. However, the RBTO can consider the uncertainty variables because it can deal with the probabilistic constraints. The reliability index approach (RIA) and the performance measure approach (PMA) are adopted to evaluate the probabilistic constraints in this study. In order to apply the BESO to the RBTO, sensitivity number for each element is defined as the change in the reliability index of the structure due to removal of each element. Smoothing scheme is also used to eliminate checkerboard patterns in topology optimization. The limit state indicates the margin of safety between the resistance (constraints) and the load of structures. The limit State function expresses to evaluate reliability index from finite element analysis. Numerical examples are presented to compare each optimal topology obtained from RBTO and DTO each other. It is verified that the RBTO based on BESO can be effectively performed from the results.

• 한국생산제조학회지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.637-644
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• 2010

This paper presents a reliability-based shape optimization (RBSO) using the growth-strain method. An actual design involves uncertain conditions such as material property, operational load, Poisson's ratio and dimensional variation. The purpose of the RBSO is to consider the variations of probabilistic constraint and performances caused by uncertainties. In this study, the growth-strain method was applied to shape optimization of reliability analysis. Even though many papers for reliability-based shape optimization in mathematical programming method and ESO (Evolutionary Structural Optimization) were published, the paper for the reliability-based shape optimization using the growth-strain method has not been applied yet. Growth-strain method is applied to performance measure approach (PMA), which has probabilistic constraints that are formulated in terms of the reliability index, is adopted to evaluate the probabilistic constraints in the change of average mises stress. Numerical examples are presented to compare the DO with the RBSO. The results of design example show that the RBSO model is more reliable than deterministic optimization. It was verified that the reliability-based shape optimization using growth-strain method are very effective for general structure. The purpose of this study is to improve structure's safety considering probabilistic variable.

• 한국생산제조학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.412-418
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• 2011

Reliability-based Topology optimization(RBTO) is to get an optimal design satisfying uncertainties of design variables. Although RBTO based on homogenization and density distribution method has been done, RBTO based on BESO has not been reported yet. This study presents a reliability-based topology optimization(RBTO) using bi-directional evolutionary structural optimization(BESO). Topology optimization is formulated as volume minimization problem with probabilistic displacement constraint. Young's modulus, external load and thickness are considered as uncertain variables. In order to compute reliability index, four methods, i.e., RIA, PMA, SLSV and ADL(adaptive-loop), are used. Reliability-based topology optimization design process is conducted to obtain optimal topology satisfying allowable displacement and target reliability index with the above four methods, and then each result is compared with respect to numerical stability and computing time. The results of this study show that the RBTO based on BESO using the four methods can effectively be applied for topology optimization. And it was confirmed that DLSV and ADL had better numerical efficiency than SLSV. ADL and SLSV had better time cost than DLSV. Consequently, ADL method showed the best time efficiency and good numerical stability.