Masters Theses
Abstract
"Design requires a series of decisions, and one of the major challenges engineering designers face is making decisions under uncertainty. The engineering designer must choose the best design among various alternatives. This work evaluates the use of utility functions to make decisions under uncertainty with both random and interval variables. Uncertainty cannot be eliminated completely, but it can be reduced. Most current methods treat only aleatory uncertainty. Here, however, both aleatory and epistemic uncertainties are addressed in the context of engineering design. Methods such as moment matching method and worst case analysis are used to incorporate uncertainty into design problems"--Abstract, page iii.
Advisor(s)
Du, Xiaoping
Committee Member(s)
Takai, Shun
Midha, A. (Ashok)
Department(s)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Degree Name
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Sponsor(s)
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Publisher
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Publication Date
Spring 2009
Pagination
viii, 70 pages
Rights
© 2009 Sashank Vasireddy, All rights reserved.
Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
File Type
text
Language
English
Subject Headings
Decision making
Epistemics
Uncertainty -- Mathematical models
Thesis Number
T 9501
Print OCLC #
436156345
Electronic OCLC #
319424515
Link to Catalog Record
Recommended Citation
Vasireddy, Sashank, "Decision-based design under uncertainty with intervals" (2009). Masters Theses. 4660.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/masters_theses/4660
