Optimization methods in structural design / Alan Rothwell.
2017
TA658.8
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Title
Optimization methods in structural design / Alan Rothwell.
Author
Rothwell, Alan, author.
ISBN
9783319551975 (electronic book)
3319551973 (electronic book)
9783319551968
3319551965
3319551973 (electronic book)
9783319551968
3319551965
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 314 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-319-55197-5 doi
Call Number
TA658.8
Dewey Decimal Classification
624.1/7713
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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text file PDF
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 10, 2017).
Series
Solid mechanics and its applications ; v. 242. 0925-0042
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Print version: 9783319551968
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Table of Contents
Preface
1 The Conventional Design Process
2 Optimality Criteria
3 The General Optimization Problem
4 Numerical Methods for Unconstrained Optimization
5 Numerical Methods for Constrained Optimization
6 Optimization of Beams
7 Reinforced Shell Structures
8 Composite Laminates
9 Laminate Optimization
10 Optimization with Finite Element Analysis. Final Word
Appendix
Index.
1 The Conventional Design Process
2 Optimality Criteria
3 The General Optimization Problem
4 Numerical Methods for Unconstrained Optimization
5 Numerical Methods for Constrained Optimization
6 Optimization of Beams
7 Reinforced Shell Structures
8 Composite Laminates
9 Laminate Optimization
10 Optimization with Finite Element Analysis. Final Word
Appendix
Index.