... for compliant mechanisms becomes an important task when the problem is more and more complex. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to design a new hybrid computational method. The hybridized method is an integration of statistics, numerical method, computational intelligence and optimization. Design...

...Ahmed S Dalaq; Shivakumar I. Ranganathan Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the statistics of thermal conductivity and resistivity tensors in two-phase random checkerboard microstructures at finite mesoscales. Design/methodology/approach – Microstructures at finite scales...

... and traditional method for a probabilistic analysis. Extensive reviews of the method are found in Melchers (1999) and Haldar and Mahadevan (2000) . In brief, the method uses randomly generated samples of the input variables for each deterministic analysis, and estimates response statistics after numerous...

... members braced with unilateral diagonal struts for each bay, which are only activated in compression. Identification of the equivalent system characteristics and nonlinear material properties are accomplished from the concepts of inverse analysis approach along with statistical tests of hypotheses...

...G. Cailletaud; D. Jeulin; P. Rolland In addition to the prediction of effective elastic properties of random media, the statistical variations of these properties for finite size specimens are of practical interest. From finite element method calculations on simulated 2D random media, size effects...