Optimization and Artificial Intelligence in Civil and Structural Engineering: Volume I: Optimization in Civil and Structural Engineering

✍ Scribed by Andrew B. Templeman (auth.), B. H. V. Topping (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 655
• Series: NATO ASI Series 221
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume and its companion volume includes the edited versions of the principal lectures and selected papers presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Optimization and Decision Support Systems in Civil Engineering. The Institute was held in the Department of Civil Engineering at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh from June 25th to July 6th 1989 and was attended by eighty participants from Universities and Research Institutes around the world. A number of practising civil and structural engineers also attended. The lectures and papers have been divided into two volumes to reflect the dual themes of the Institute namely Optimization and Decision Support Systems in Civil Engineering. Planning for this ASI commenced in late 1986 when Andrew Templeman and I discussed developments in the use of the systems approach in civil engineering. A little later it became clear that much of this approach could be realised through the use of knowledge-based systems and artificial intelligence techniques. Both Don Grierson and John Gero indicated at an early stage how important it would be to include knowledge-based systems within the scope of the Institute. The title of the Institute could have been: 'Civil Engineering Systems' as this would have reflected the range of systems applications to civil engineering problems considered by the Institute. These volumes therefore reflect the full range of these problems including: structural analysis and design; water resources engineering; geotechnical engineering; transportation and environmental engineering.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
The Optimization of Civil Engineering Networks....Pages 1-18
Fuzzy Sets Applied to Civil Engineering Systems....Pages 19-32
Civil Engineering Optimizing and Satisficing....Pages 33-41
Network Structuring Algorithms....Pages 43-60
Risk Balancing Approaches....Pages 61-70
Consistent Crudeness in System Construction....Pages 71-85
Entropy and Civil Engineering Optimization....Pages 87-105
An Assessment of Current Non-Linear Programming Algorithms for Structural Design, Part I: Basic Algorithms....Pages 107-125
An Assessment of Current Non-Linear Programming Algorithms for Structural Design, Part II: Some Recent Approximation Methods....Pages 127-141
Classification and Comparison of LP Formulations for the Plastic Design of Frames....Pages 143-188
On Some Properties of Optimum Structural Topologies....Pages 189-209
The Theorems of Structural and Geometric Variation for Engineering Structures....Pages 211-222
Optimal Design of Large Discretized Systems by Iterative Optimality Criteria Methods....Pages 223-288
Approximate Models for Structural Optimization....Pages 289-325
Computer-Automated Optimal Design of Structural Steel Frameworks....Pages 327-353
Optimal Design for Static and Dynamic Loading....Pages 355-366
Optimal Design and Optimization of Structures....Pages 367-416
Two-Stage Optimal Design in Concrete....Pages 417-435
Layout Optimization in Structural Design....Pages 437-484
Sequential Optimisation for Structural Networks and Water Supply Systems Based on Sensitivity and Reliability....Pages 485-501
The Geometrical Analysis of Deformations Based on an Optimal Network Design and Proper Data Management Tools....Pages 503-524
Interaction of Criteria, Accuracy and Reliability and its Implication for the Design of Engineering Survey Control Networks....Pages 525-544
A Systems Approach to Real-Time Reservoir Operations....Pages 545-565
Approaches to Risk Management and Operational Guidance for Municipal Water Supplies....Pages 567-576
Optimization Modeling in Water Resources: A Sample of Applications....Pages 577-596
Queues, Construction Operations and Optimization....Pages 597-616
Sensitivity Analysis in Reliability-Based Shape Optimization....Pages 617-637
Genetic Algorithms in Automated Structural Synthesis....Pages 639-653

✦ Subjects

Civil Engineering;Mechanics;Engineering, general