Efficient stochastic optimization algorithms for performance-based system design with application to structural control system design for floating offshore wind turbines

• Main Author: Gong, Fanming
• Other Authors: Cheung Sai Hung
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Engineering::Civil engineering::Structures and design
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103732; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49986
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Performance-based system design optimization is always required in modern engineering applications. However, the available information about the system is never complete due to the uncertainties in the model parameters of the system, the future environmental conditions subjected to the system and th...