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News: Updated LS-OPT 4.2 Manual availabe Feb 21, 2012; Release of new LS-OPT 4.2 version Jan 12, 2012; LS-TaSC version 2.1 beta released Jan 11, 2012; New Curve Matching Metric in LS-OPT 4.2 Aug 18, 2011; Full Vehicle MDO - Example Jun 03, 2011; …more

Robustness Analysis

Stochastic methods and features for robustness analysis are implemented in LS-OPT.

Monte Carlo Investigations

Direct and metamodel based
Estimation of Mean, Std. Deviation
Correlation Analysis
Confidence Intervals
Outlier Analysis
Stochastic contribution analysis

Reliability studies

Determination of failure probability
Methods: FOSM, FORM

Reliability Based Design Optimization

Optimization that directly accounts for the variability and the probability of failure

Robust Design Optimization

Optimizing design and robustness simultanously

Visualization of statistical results on the FE-Model (DYNAstats)

Fringe of mean and standard deviation on the FE-model utilizing LS-PrePost
Display of variation of element results such as stress, thinning, plastic strain...
Correlation of node displacements with respect to any response
Statistics of time history curves

Examples: