Stochastic structural optimization [electronic resource] / Makoto Yamakawa and Makoto Ohsaki.

"This presents a comprehensive picture of robust design optimization of structures, focused on nonparametric stochastic-based methodologies. Linking structural optimization with both reliability-based design (which usually incorporates assumptions on probability functions which are often unknown), and with robust design (offering simplicity and a lower level of sensitivity) through a unified framework of non-parametric stochastic methodologies provides a rigorous theoretical background and high level of practicality. This text shows how to use this theoretical framework in civil and mechanical engineering practice to design a safe structure which takes account of uncertainty"-- Provided by publisher.