Certifiable Risk-Based Engineering Design Optimization

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Autori principali: Chaudhuri, Anirban, Kramer, Boris, Norton, Matthew, Royset, Johannes O., Willcox, Karen
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author Chaudhuri, Anirban
Kramer, Boris
Norton, Matthew
Royset, Johannes O.
Willcox, Karen
author_facet Chaudhuri, Anirban
Kramer, Boris
Norton, Matthew
Royset, Johannes O.
Willcox, Karen
contents Reliable, risk-averse design of complex engineering systems with optimized performance requires dealing with uncertainties. A conventional approach is to add safety margins to a design that was obtained from deterministic optimization. Safer engineering designs require appropriate cost and constraint function definitions that capture the \textit{risk} associated with unwanted system behavior in the presence of uncertainties. The paper proposes two notions of certifiability. The first is based on accounting for the magnitude of failure to ensure data-informed conservativeness. The second is the ability to provide optimization convergence guarantees by preserving convexity. Satisfying these notions leads to \textit{certifiable} risk-based design optimization (CRiBDO). In the context of CRiBDO, risk measures based on superquantile (a.k.a.\ conditional value-at-risk) and buffered probability of failure are analyzed. CRiBDO is contrasted with reliability-based design optimization (RBDO), where uncertainties are accounted for via the probability of failure, through a structural and a thermal design problem. A reformulation of the short column structural design problem leading to a convex CRiBDO problem is presented. The CRiBDO formulations capture more information about the problem to assign the appropriate conservativeness, exhibit superior optimization convergence by preserving properties of underlying functions, and alleviate the adverse effects of choosing hard failure thresholds required in RBDO.
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spellingShingle Certifiable Risk-Based Engineering Design Optimization
Chaudhuri, Anirban
Kramer, Boris
Norton, Matthew
Royset, Johannes O.
Willcox, Karen
Optimization and Control
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Computation
Reliable, risk-averse design of complex engineering systems with optimized performance requires dealing with uncertainties. A conventional approach is to add safety margins to a design that was obtained from deterministic optimization. Safer engineering designs require appropriate cost and constraint function definitions that capture the \textit{risk} associated with unwanted system behavior in the presence of uncertainties. The paper proposes two notions of certifiability. The first is based on accounting for the magnitude of failure to ensure data-informed conservativeness. The second is the ability to provide optimization convergence guarantees by preserving convexity. Satisfying these notions leads to \textit{certifiable} risk-based design optimization (CRiBDO). In the context of CRiBDO, risk measures based on superquantile (a.k.a.\ conditional value-at-risk) and buffered probability of failure are analyzed. CRiBDO is contrasted with reliability-based design optimization (RBDO), where uncertainties are accounted for via the probability of failure, through a structural and a thermal design problem. A reformulation of the short column structural design problem leading to a convex CRiBDO problem is presented. The CRiBDO formulations capture more information about the problem to assign the appropriate conservativeness, exhibit superior optimization convergence by preserving properties of underlying functions, and alleviate the adverse effects of choosing hard failure thresholds required in RBDO.
title Certifiable Risk-Based Engineering Design Optimization
topic Optimization and Control
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Computation
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.05129