Optimum Design of Structures
Subtitle: With Special Reference to Alternative Loads Using Geometric Programming
By: by Lahbib Chibani
Series: Lecture Notes in Engineering -- 50; Lecture notes in engineering -- 50.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9783540515395; 9783642838903
Subjects: Engineering; Engineering design; Engineering mathematics
Description: This book presents the integrated approach of analysis and optimal design of structures. This approach, which is more convenient than the so-called nested approach, has the difficulty of generating a large optimization problem. To overcome this problem a methodology of decomposition by multilevel is developed. This technique, which is also suitable for implementation on parallel processing computers, has the advantage of reducing the size of the optimization problem generated. The geometric programming for both equality and inequality constraints is used in the optimization.
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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Geometric Programming with Equality Constraints; title: Decomposition and Reduction Techniques for Large Scale Structural Optimization; title: Parallel Decomposition for Alternative Loads in Structural Optimization; title: Application to Truss Type Structures; title: Summary, Conclusions and Plans for Future Work; title: References.