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OPTIMIZATION OF MECHANICAL SYSTEMS: ON NON-LINEAR FIRST-ORDER APPROXIMATION WITH AN ADDITIVE CONVEX TERM

✍ Scribed by KEGL, M. ;OBLAK, M. M.


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
152 KB
Volume
13
Category
Article
ISSN
1069-8299

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✦ Synopsis


This paper presents an improved approximation technique for gradient based approximation methods of mathematical programming. The proposed technique prevents oscillations of the sequence of approximate solutions in the optimization process eciently and preserves the relatively simple form of the approximating functions. The improvement is achieved by adding an appropriate convex term to each conventional approximating function. The theory is illustrated with several numerical examples.