Structural Optimization with Uncertainties

• Main Authors: Banichuk, N.V (Author), Neittaanmäki, Pekka (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Series: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, 162
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computer-aided engineering.; Calculus of variations.; Computational intelligence.; Structural mechanics.; Engineering design.; Computational Intelligence.; Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization.; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design.; Structural Mechanics.; Engineering Design.

This monograph is devoted to the exposition of new ways of formulating problems of structural optimization with incomplete information and techniques of solution. Research results concerning the optimum shape and structural properties of the bodies subjected to external loadings are recapitulated. P...