Stability and Optimization of Structures: Generalized Sensitivity Analysis (Mechanical Engineering Series) (Mechanical Engineering Series)

✍ Scribed by Makoto Ohsaki, Kiyohiro Ikeda,

• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 221
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Stability and Optimization of Structures: Generalized Sensitivity Analysis is the first book to address issues of structural optimization against nonlinear buckling. Through the investigation of imperfection sensitivity, worst imperfection and random imperfection based on concrete theoretical framework, it is shown that optimization against buckling does not necessarily produce an imperfection-sensitive structure. This book offers the reader greater insight into optimization-based and computer-assisted stability design of finite-dimensional structures. Using the unified approach to parameter sensitivity analysis, it connects studies of elastic stability, computational mechanics and applied mathematics. Optimization based on stability theory is presented and explained, with 140 figures to illustrate applications in the framework of finite element analysis. This book serves as an illustrative introduction for professional structural and mechanical engineers, graduate students in engineering, as well as applied mathematicians in the field.

✦ Table of Contents

0387681833......Page 1
front-matter......Page 2
1......Page 17
3......Page 18
15......Page 38
35......Page 58
59......Page 81
61......Page 82
77......Page 99
87......Page 109
101......Page 122
115......Page 136
137......Page 148
153......Page 163
155......Page 164
169......Page 177
181......Page 189
193......Page 200
213......Page 210