Optimization of Large Structural Systems

Buch | Softcover

1204 Seiten

2014 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-010-9579-2 (ISBN)

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G.I.N. Rozvany ASI Director, Professor of Structural Design, FB 10, Essen University, Essen, Germany Structural optimization deals with the optimal design of all systems that consist, at least partially, of solids and are subject to stresses and deformations. This inte grated discipline plays an increasingly important role in all branches of technology, including aerospace, structural, mechanical, civil and chemical engineering as well as energy generation and building technology. In fact, the design of most man made objects, ranging from space-ships and long-span bridges to tennis rackets and artificial organs, can be improved considerably if human intuition is enhanced by means of computer-aided, systematic decisions. In analysing highly complex structural systems in practice, discretization is un avoidable because closed-form analytical solutions are only available for relatively simple, idealized problems. To keep discretization errors to a minimum, it is de sirable to use a relatively large number of elements. Modern computer technology enables us to analyse systems with many thousand degrees of freedom. In the optimization of structural systems, however, most currently available methods are restricted to at most a few hundred variables or a few hundred active constraints.

Principal Lectures: Optimality Criteria and Topology Optimization. Decomposition Methods and Approximation Concepts. Sensitivity Analysis. Mathematical Programming and Global Optima. Composite, Anisotropic and Nonlinear Materials. Neural Neworks, Parallel Processing, Multicriteria and Control Problems. Miscellaneous Topics. Abstracts of Contributed Papers.

Reihe/Serie	NATO Science Series E ; 231
Zusatzinfo	191 Illustrations, black and white; XXXIV, 1204 p. 191 illus. In 2 volumes, not available separately.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Mechanik
	Technik ► Bauwesen
	Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
ISBN-10	94-010-9579-5 / 9401095795
ISBN-13	978-94-010-9579-2 / 9789401095792
Zustand	Neuware