Anti-optimization technique - A generalization of interval analysis for nonprobabilistic treatment of uncertainty
College
Engineering and Computer Science
Department
Ocean and Mechanical Engineering
Document Type
Article
Publication/Event/Conference Title
Chaos Solitons and Fractals
Publication Status
Version of Record
Abstract
Anti-optimization technique, on the one hand, represents an alternative and complement to traditional probabilistic methods, and on the other hand, it is a generalization of the mathematical theory of interval analysis. In this study, in terms of interval analysis or interval mathematics, the arithmetic operations and the partial order relation of anti-optimization technique can be defined, and the convex model variables and the convex model extension function of convex models can also be introduced. The comparison of the Lagrange multiplier method with the convex model extension method for evaluating the region of static displacements of structures with uncertain-but-bounded parameters shows that the width of the upper and lower bounds on the static displacement yielded by the Lagrange multiplier method of convex models is tighter than those produced by the convex model extension. © 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd.
First Page
1747
Last Page
1759
DOI
10.1016/S0960-0779(00)00102-8
Publication Date
1-1-2001
Recommended Citation
Qiu, Zhiping and Elishakoff, Isaac, "Anti-optimization technique - A generalization of interval analysis for nonprobabilistic treatment of uncertainty" (2001). Faculty Scholarship. 461.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/faculty_papers/461