Search for dissertations about: "structural robustness"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 65 swedish dissertations containing the words structural robustness.
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1. Structural Safety Design for Real-World Situations - Using Computer Aided Engineering for Robust Passenger Car Crashworthiness
Abstract : Road traffic continues to cause more than a million fatalities worldwide every year. Although many steps have been taken to improve occupant protection in car crashes, challenges still remain for car designers. READ MORE
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2. Community Robustness Analysis : Theoretical Approaches to Identifying Keystone Structures in Ecological Communities
Abstract : Most of the world’s ecosystems suffer from stress caused by human activities such as habitat destruction, fragmentation, overexploitation of species and climate change. These factors affect the reproduction and/or survival of individual species as well as interactions between species in ecological communities. READ MORE
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3. Essays on Estimation Methods for Factor Models and Structural Equation Models
Abstract : This thesis which consists of four papers is concerned with estimation methods in factor analysis and structural equation models. New estimation methods are proposed and investigated.In paper I an approximation of the penalized maximum likelihood (ML) is introduced to fit an exploratory factor analysis model. READ MORE
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4. Optimization and Robustness of Structural Product Families
Abstract : This thesis concerns structural optimization and robustness evaluations, and new methods are presented that considerably reduce the computational cost of these evaluations.Optimization is an effective tool in the design process and the interest from industry of its usage is quickly increasing. READ MORE
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5. Optimization and robustness of structural product families
Abstract : This thesis concerns structural optimization of product families and robustness. The overall objective is to find a method for performing structural optimization of product families subjected to multiple crash load cases and to ensure a robust behavior. READ MORE