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We present a new formulation of the problem of minimizing the initial cost of a structure subject to a minimum reliability requirement, expressed in terms of the so-called design points of the first-order reliability theory, i.e., points on limit-state surfaces that are nearest to the origin in a transformed standard normal space, as well as other deterministic constraints. Our formulation makes it...
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