A strategy for reliability-based optimization

Various formulations for reliability-based optimization and the associated problems are discussed. A formulation, in which component and system reliability requirements are balanced, is proposed. A typical frame of a small water plane twin hull (SWATH) ship is optimized by this method. It is found that the algorithm works well and an efficient design of the SWATH, which was previously designed by a deterministic procedure, was achieved.

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