Optimization applications in structural design
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"The goal of the process of optimal structural design is to arrive recursively at better designs while maintaining safety and feasibility. Better is a generic term for lower cost or lower weight in most structures. Designers have intuitively arrived at workable methods that yield safe functional designs and indirectly in some cases minimize cost. A considerable research effort in structural optimization has been taking place in the past twenty years aimed at developing a large scale systematic methodology for performing optimization in the design of structural systems. Prior to this time, most of the optimum design philosophies and approaches were strongly influenced by studies on statically determinate structural systems subjected to one load condition and designed for adequate strength. The pioneering work of Schmit was largely responsible for the development of new directions and approaches in optimum design studies, particularly in including indeterminate systems, multiple load conditions and design constraints in addition to strength."--Introduction.
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