Optimization Methods in Structural Design

✍ Scribed by Alan Rothwell (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 324
• Series: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications 242
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book offers an introduction to numerical optimization methods in structural design. Employing a readily accessible and compact format, the book presents an overview of optimization methods, and equips readers to properly set up optimization problems and interpret the results. A ‘how-to-do-it’ approach is followed throughout, with less emphasis at this stage on mathematical derivations. The book features spreadsheet programs provided in Microsoft Excel, which allow readers to experience optimization ‘hands-on.’ Examples covered include truss structures, columns, beams, reinforced shell structures, stiffened panels and composite laminates. For the last three, a review of relevant analysis methods is included. Exercises, with solutions where appropriate, are also included with each chapter. The book offers a valuable resource for engineering students at the upper undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as others in the industry and elsewhere who are new to these highly practical techniques.While the specific application is to structural design, the principles involved can be applied far more widely.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
The Conventional Design Process....Pages 1-28
Optimality Criteria....Pages 29-53
The General Optimization Problem....Pages 55-81
Numerical Methods for Unconstrained Optimization....Pages 83-106
Numerical Methods for Constrained Optimization....Pages 107-145
Optimization of Beams....Pages 147-181
Reinforced Shell Structures....Pages 183-239
Composite Laminates....Pages 241-282
Optimization With Finite Element Analysis....Pages 283-296
Back Matter....Pages 297-314

✦ Subjects

Engineering Design;Structural Mechanics;Aerospace Technology and Astronautics;Computational Science and Engineering