Doctoral Dissertations
Abstract
"The objective of this research is to quantify the impact of both aleatory and epistemic uncertainties on performances of multidisciplinary systems. Aleatory uncertainty comes from the inherent uncertain nature and epistemic uncertainty comes from the lack of knowledge. Although intensive research has been conducted on aleatory uncertainty, few studies on epistemic uncertainty have been reported. In this work, the two types of uncertainty are analyzed. Aleatory uncertainty is modeled by probability distributions while epistemic uncertainty is modeled by intervals. Probabilistic analysis (PA) and interval analysis (IA) are integrated to capture the effect of the two types of uncertainty. The First Order Reliability Method is employed for PA while nonlinear optimization is used for IA. The unified uncertainty analysis, which consists of PA and IA, is employed to develop new sensitivity analysis methods for the mixture of the two types of uncertainty. The methods are able to quantify the contribution of each input variable with either epistemic uncertainty or aleatory uncertainty. The analysis results can then help better decision making on how to effectively mitigate the effect of uncertainty. The other major contribution of this research is the extension of the unified uncertainty analysis to the reliability analysis for multidisciplinary systems"--Abstract, page iv.
Advisor(s)
Du, Xiaoping
Department(s)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Degree Name
Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering
Sponsor(s)
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
University of Missouri Research Board
Publisher
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Publication Date
Fall 2008
Journal article titles appearing in thesis/dissertation
- Sensitivity analysis with the mixture of epistemic and aleatory uncertainty
- Reliability sensitivity analysis with random and interval variables
- Reliability analysis for multidisciplinary systems with random and interval variables
Pagination
xii, 161 pages
Note about bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Rights
© 2008 Jia Guo, All rights reserved.
Document Type
Dissertation - Open Access
File Type
text
Language
English
Subject Headings
EpistemicsFirst-order logicRandom variablesSensitivity theory (Mathematics)Uncertainty -- Mathematics
Thesis Number
T 9456
Print OCLC #
355568005
Electronic OCLC #
355601523
Recommended Citation
Guo, Jia, "Uncertainty analysis and sensitivity analysis for multidisciplinary systems design" (2008). Doctoral Dissertations. 2089.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/doctoral_dissertations/2089