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The dependency of structural response measures on the design variables is regarded as a mapping problem. Several mapping models are illustrated, compared and discussed.
A probabilistic model of the mechanical and geometrical properties of continua results from the introduction of random fields and/or, in a discretized continuum, random vectors. The investigation of their effects on the mapping results may require the simulation of some realizations to be incorporated in the data of the numerical (or laboratory) experiments. The association of a different simulated field for each experiment would be too noisy and, hence, blocking techniques must be used.
The paper illustrates them, their optimization and their appropriate use in the successive uncertainty propagation through structural analysis.
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Faravelli, L. (1994). Blocking Problems in the Analysis of Random Fields. In: Breysse, D. (eds) Probabilities and Materials. NATO ASI Series, vol 269. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1142-3_18
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