Overview
- Winner of a 2018 TAA Textbook Excellence Award
- Bridges the gap’ between conventional design methods and advanced texts on optimization theory
- Spreadsheet programs using Solver in Excel enable readers to experience optimization ‘hands-on’
- Includes examples referring to relevant structural design problems, such as shell structures and composite laminates
- Provides an accessible, compact text in which methods are adequately explained without excessive focus on mathematical derivations
- Enables readers to use optimization modules in major computer packages
- Worked solutions to the exercises in the book available on http://extras.springer.com/
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications (SMIA, volume 242)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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About this book
This book offers an introduction to numerical optimization methods in structural design. Employing a readily accessible and compact format, the book presents an overview of optimization methods, and equips readers to properly set up optimization problems and interpret the results. A ‘how-to-do-it’ approach is followed throughout, with less emphasis at this stage on mathematical derivations. The book features spreadsheet programs provided in Microsoft Excel, which allow readers to experience optimization ‘hands-on.’ Examples covered include truss structures, columns, beams, reinforced shell structures, stiffened panels and composite laminates. For the last three, a review of relevant analysis methods is included. Exercises, with solutions where appropriate, are also included with each chapter. The book offers a valuable resource for engineering students at the upper undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as others in the industry and elsewhere who are new to these highly practical techniques.While the specific application is to structural design, the principles involved can be applied far more widely.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Alan Rothwell has worked as professor in aircraft structures at Delft University of Technology for many years. Prior to his appointment in Delft in 1981 he was research fellow,then lecturer in aircraft design at Cranfield University of Technology in England.
Alan Rothwell has a BSc from London University, MS from Stanford and PhD from Cranfield.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Optimization Methods in Structural Design
Authors: Alan Rothwell
Series Title: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55197-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55196-8Published: 07 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85593-6Published: 25 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55197-5Published: 27 March 2017
Series ISSN: 0925-0042
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7764
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 314
Number of Illustrations: 113 b/w illustrations
Topics: Engineering Design, Solid Mechanics, Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Computational Science and Engineering