Research Initiation:  Probability-Based Tools in Computer   Aided Design
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This award is to develop probability-based design tools                    appropriate for a computer-aided structural design environment.                 The research will be limited to the study of static and                         vibrational behavior of elastic and elastic-plastic structures.                 There will be three phases to the investigation: (1) analytic                   study  of the stochastic behavior of simple structures; (2)                     development and improvement of stochastic finite element methods                and the adaption of these methods to the interactive                            computer-aided design (CAD) environment; and (3) the adaptation                 of Monte Carlo simulation methods to the interactive CAD                        environment.                                                                         Results  obtained in the first phase will be used to guide                 the development of techniques in the second phase.  The relative                merits of stochastic finite element methods and Monte Carlo                     methods for interactive CAD will be studied.  The techniques                    developed in the research will aid in the integration                           of probability-based design methodology into the interactive                    CAD environment.
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