Optimization and anti-optimization of structures under uncertainty
By: Isaac Elishakoff, Makoto Ohsaki .
Contributors: Ohsaki, Makoto, 1960-
Publisher: Imperial College Press; Distributed by World Scientific
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; Hackensack, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9781848164772
Subjects: Stabilité; Structural analysis (Engineering); Structural optimization; Structural stability; Mathematics; Strukturelle Stabilität; Constructions, Théorie des; Strukturoptimierung; Analyse mathématique; Computer-aided engineering
Description: The volume presents a collaboration between internationally recognized experts on anti-optimization and structural optimization, and summarizes various novel ideas, methodologies and results studied over 20 years. The book vividly demonstrates how the concept of uncertainty should be incorporated in a rigorous manner during the process of designing real-world structures. The necessity of anti-optimization approach is first demonstrated, then the anti-optimization techniques are applied to static, dynamic and buckling problems, thus covering the broadest possible set of applications. Finally, anti-optimization is fully utilized by a combination of structural optimization to produce the optimal design considering the worst-case scenario. This is currently the only book that covers the combination of optimization and anti-optimization. It shows how various optimization techniques are used in the novel anti-optimization technique, and how the structural optimization can be exponentially enhanced by incorporating the concept of worst-case scenario, thereby increasing the safety of the structures designed in various fields of engineering.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-385) and indexes.