Bull. comput. aided archit. des.: Portlock, P. ‘A simulative approach to layout design problems’ No 12 (July 1973)

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1974
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 129 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-4485
• DOI: 10.1016/0010-4485(74)90270-x

✦ Synopsis

Wills, J.

74.76 'A mathematical optimization procedure and its application to the design of bridge structures' Transport and Road Res. Lab., Department of the Environment, TRRL Report LR 555 (1973) 28 pp Various systematic procedures for tire optimum design of structures and the problems encountered are described by the autlror. A set of suhruutines have been written for transforming the nonlinear structural optimization problem to a sequence of linear prugramnaing problems. The subroutines do not specify or evaluate the function to be optimized; they simply organize and control the optimization procedure.

A computer program has been written for carrying out miniumm cost and minimum weight studies for girders. The program calculates the structural performance, the weight and cost of each girder and contains the optimization suhroutines.