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Optimality of a fully stressed design

โœ Scribed by Surya N. Patnaik; Dale A. Hopkins

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
543 KB
Volume
165
Category
Article
ISSN
0045-7825

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โœฆ Synopsis

For a truss a fully stressed state is reached when all its members are utilized to their full strength capacity. Historically, engineers considered such a design optimum. But recently this optimality has been questioned, especially since the weight of the structure is not explicitly used in fully stressed design calculations. This paper examines optimality of the fully stressed design (FSD) with analytical and graphical illustrations. Solutions for a set of examples obtained by using the FSD method and optimization methods numerically confirm the optimality of the FSD. The FSD, which can be obtained with a small amount of calculation, can be extended to displacement constraints and to nontruss-type structures.

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