Problems and Methods of Optimal Structural Design
Authors: Banichuk, Nikolai Vladimirovich
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The author offers a systematic and careful development of many aspects of structural optimization, particularly for beams and plates. Some of the results are new and some have appeared only in specialized Soviet journals, or as pro ceedings of conferences, and are not easily accessible to Western engineers and mathematicians. Some aspects of the theory presented here, such as optimiza tion of anisotropic properties of elastic structural elements, have not been con sidered to any extent by Western research engineers. The author's treatment is "classical", i.e., employing classical analysis. Classical calculus of variations, the complex variables approach, and the Kolosov Muskhelishvili theory are the basic techniques used. He derives many results that are of interest to practical structural engineers, such as optimum designs of structural elements submerged in a flowing fluid (which is of obvious interest in aircraft design, in ship building, in designing turbines, etc.). Optimization with incomplete information concerning the loads (which is the case in a great majority of practical design considerations) is treated thoroughly. For example, one can only estimate the weight of the traffic on a bridge, the wind load, the additional loads if a river floods, or possible earthquake loads.
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Formulation of Problems and Research Techniques in Structural Optimization
Pages 1-61
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One-Dimensional Optimization Problems
Pages 63-107
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Optimal Design of Elastic Plates
Pages 109-134
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Optimization Problems with Unknown Boundaries in the Theory of Elasticity
Pages 135-179
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Optimization of Anisotropic Properties of Elastic Bodies
Pages 181-207
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Problems and Methods of Optimal Structural Design
- Authors
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- Nikolai Vladimirovich Banichuk
- Series Title
- Mathematical Concepts and Methods in Science and Engineering
- Series Volume
- 26
- Copyright
- 1983
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Copyright Holder
- Plenum Press, New York
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4613-3676-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4613-3676-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-306-41284-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4613-3678-5
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXI, 313
- Topics