Reliability-based structural optimization methods use mostly the following basic design criteria: I) Minimum weight (volume or costs) and II) high strength of the structure. Since several parameters of the structure, e.g. material parameters, loads, manufacturing errors, are not given, fixed...

Reliability-based structural optimization methods use mostly the following basic design criteria: I) Minimum weight (volume or costs) and II) high strength of the structure. Since several parameters of the structure, e.g. material parameters, loads, manufacturing errors, are not given, fixed...

This study presents a compromise approach to augmentation of experimental designs, necessitated by the expense of performing each experiment (computational or physical), that yields higher quality parametric polynomial response surface approximations than traditional augmentation. Based on the...

We conducted an optimization using the second-order response surface method to determine the transverse rib geometry required to achieve the highest cooling performance in a circular channel. The best rib geometry was based on three design variables; rib height, rib width, and rib pitch. The...

This paper proposes a novel two-phase algorithm for a centralised production planning problem that covers both long-term and mid-term planning simultaneously. Mid-term decisions (first phase) include determining the amount of new inputs and outputs of units in the next production period and...

To design an impingement/effusion cooling system that realizes the lowest thermal stress in an impingement/effusion cooling system, we conducted thermal analysis and optimization using a second-order response surface method. The optimal impinging jet system was based on four design variables:...

In this study, optimization of the hot-pressing parameters in manufacturing of the MEA (membrane electrode assembly) is carried out using RSM (response surface method). The important parameters to be optimized in the MEA production are temperature, pressure and the processing (pressing) time....

Design and retrofitting of buildings for high performance in terms of low consumption of energy and exergy requires the examination of a large number of design variants, including time-consuming simulation. Metamodels (surrogate models) based on the Response Surface Method (RSM) can solve this...