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Reliability-based design of structural systems is considered. Especially systems where the reliability model is a series system of parallel systems are analysed. A sensitivity analysis for this class of problems is presented. Direct and sequential optimization procedures to solve the optimization problems are described. Numerical tests indicate that a sequential technique called the bounds iteration method (BIM) is particularly fast and stable.
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Enevoldsen, I., Sørensen, J.D. (1992). Strategies for Optimal Design of Structural Systems. In: Rackwitz, R., Thoft-Christensen, P. (eds) Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems ’91. Lecture Notes in Engineering, vol 76. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84753-0_13
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