Elements of Structural Optimization

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   • Raphael T. Haftka, Zafer Gürdal

   Pages 1-21

3. Classical Tools in Structural Optimization

   • Raphael T. Haftka, Zafer Gürdal

   Pages 23-69

4. Linear Programming

   • Raphael T. Haftka, Zafer Gürdal

   Pages 71-114

5. Unconstrained Optimization

   • Raphael T. Haftka, Zafer Gürdal

   Pages 115-158

6. Constrained Optimization

   • Raphael T. Haftka, Zafer Gürdal

   Pages 159-207

7. Aspects of The Optimization Process in Practice

   • Raphael T. Haftka, Zafer Gürdal

   Pages 209-254

8. Sensitivity of Discrete Systems

   • Raphael T. Haftka, Zafer Gürdal

   Pages 255-304

9. Introduction to Variational Sensitivity Analysis

   • Raphael T. Haftka, Zafer Gürdal

   Pages 305-346

10. Dual and Optimality Criteria Methods

    • Raphael T. Haftka, Zafer Gürdal

    Pages 347-386

11. Decomposition and Multilevel Optimization

    • Raphael T. Haftka, Zafer Gürdal

    Pages 387-414

12. Optimum Design of Laminated Composite Structures

    • Raphael T. Haftka, Zafer Gürdal

    Pages 415-468

13. Back Matter

    Pages 469-489

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The field of structural optimization is still a relatively new field undergoing rapid changes in methods and focus. Until recently there was a severe imbalance between the enormous amount of literature on the subject, and the paucity of applications to practical design problems. This imbalance is being gradually redressed. There is still no shortage of new publications, but there are also exciting applications of the methods of structural optimizations in the automotive, aerospace, civil engineering, machine design and other engineering fields. As a result of the growing pace of applications, research into structural optimization methods is increasingly driven by real-life problems. t-.Jost engineers who design structures employ complex general-purpose software packages for structural analysis. Often they do not have any access to the source program, and even more frequently they have only scant knowledge of the details of the structural analysis algorithms used in this software packages. Therefore the major challenge faced by researchers in structural optimization is to develop methods that are suitable for use with such software packages. Another major challenge is the high computational cost associated with the analysis of many complex real-life problems. In many cases the engineer who has the task of designing a structure cannot afford to analyze it more than a handful of times.

• Vibration
• composite material
• concrete
• design
• dynamics
• optimization
• prestressed concrete
• programming
• structural optimization
• structure

• Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA

  Raphael T. Haftka

• Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA

  Zafer Gürdal

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