Discretization Methods and Structural Optimization - Procedures and Applications
Subtitle: Proceedings of a GAMM-Seminar October 5-7, 1988, Siegen, FRG
By: edited by Hans A. Eschenauer, Georg Thierauf
Contributors: Thierauf, Georg
Series: Lecture Notes in Engineering -- 42; Lecture Notes in Engineering -- 42
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9783540507840; 9783642837074
Subjects: Engineering; Engineering design; Engineering mathematics
Description: The main subject of this GAMM-Seminar is research in the field of discretization methods and structural optimization. The topics are procedures, strategies and algorithms for structural optimization based on modern discretization techniques. In particular, sensitivity and mesh-generation, large-scale structural systems and decomposition for finite element systems are covered. Structural optimization is presented as multipurpose and multistage optimization. Optimal design and shape optimization are treated in analytical form and as an interactive process. Finally, knowledge-based algorithms for design optimization and expert systems are discussed.
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Table of contents: title: From the Contents: Opening Lecture; title: Session 1a: Procedures - Strategies - Algorithms; title: Session 1b: Procedures - Mesh Generation - Sensitivity; title: Session 2: Large Scale Structural Systems - Decomposition; title: Session 3: Multipurpose and Multistage Optimization - Interactive Procedures; title: Session 4: Shape Optimization - Applications; title: Session 5: Knowledge-based Algorithms; title: Closing Remarks; title: Author Index.