The experience of the 1960s has shown that for military aircraft the cost of the final increment of performance usually is excessive in terms of other characteristics and that the overall system must be optimized, not just performance Ref: Current State of the art of Multidisciplinary design Optimization
Vehicle Development Research Laboratory Presented at MIT 4/14/04 for 16.888/sd.77J Multidisciplinary System Design Optimization (MSDO) Prof. Olivier de Weck and Prof. Karen Willcox ... Designing Great GM Cars and Trucks!
Plan for the Session Basic concepts in probability and statistics Review design of experiments Basics of Robust Design Research topics - Model-based- assessment of RD methods Faster computer-based robust design Robust invention
Multidisciplinary System An mdo value framework Design Optimization(MSDO) Lifecycle cost models Design for Value Value metrics valuation techniques ecture 24 Value-based mdo