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When referring to robust design optimization of complex engineering structures, the above expensive job should be repeatedly carried out for a considerable amount of time during the full optimization process. Hence, such repetitive jobs may be difficult to complete for most engineering applications. Aiming at this problem, the paper proposes a general methodology for reliability-based robust design optimization (RBRDO). Firstly, the improved formulation of the RBRDO problem is proposed based on the conventional RBRDO form, and the original probabilistic constraint functions in the improved formulation are changed into the deterministic ones by means of employing the performance measure approach (PMA). Secondly, the above-mentioned improved RBRDO problem is approximately replaced by a new sequence of approximate suboptimizations. For each suboptimization, its original PMA functions are replaced by the approximate explicit form only concerning the deterministic design variables rather than random variables. In this way, each suboptimization is deterministic. Furthermore, the trust-region method is adopted to ensure that the new sequence of suboptimization converge to the original improved RBRDO problem. Lastly, a test problem and three applications are adopted to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the above-proposed methods.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>PACS(optional, as per journal): 75.40.-s; 71.20.LP<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/jcde\/qwac096","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,21]],"date-time":"2022-09-21T16:46:40Z","timestamp":1663778800000},"page":"2151-2169","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["A general methodology for reliability-based robust design optimization of computation-intensive engineering problems"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Xiongming","family":"Lai","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Huaqiao University , Xiamen, 361021, Republic of China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ju","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, 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