TY - BOOK AU - Mena Emil Barsoum Tawfik AU - Edward Adeeb Sadek , TI - Design optimization of composite plates considering uncertainties using neural network / PY - 2011/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mena Emil Barsoum Tawfik , KW - Composite plates KW - Neural network KW - Reliability analysis N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Aerospace Engineering; Issued also as CD N2 - The aim of this work is to perform Reliability-Based Design Optimization (RBDO) to the free vibration of a laminated composite plate. To achieve this goal several techniques are integrated as follow: First, the reliability analysis is performed using first and second-order reliability techniques and Monte Carlo simulation technique ER -