Multidisciplinary design optimization supported by knowledge based engineering /

• Main Authors: Sobieszczanski-Sobieski, Jaroslaw (Author), Morris, A. J. (Author), Tooren, M. J. L. van (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK : John Wiley and Sons, 2015.
• Subjects: Engineering design.; Multidisciplinary design optimization.; Expert systems (Computer science); TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Mechanical.; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Engineering (General); TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Reference; Electronic books.

Multidisciplinary Design Optimization supported by Knowledge Based Engineering supports engineers confronting this daunting and new design paradigm. It describes methodology for conducting a system design in a systematic and rigorous manner that supports human creativity to optimize the design objec...

Table of Contents:

• Modern design and optimization
• Constrained design space search
• Direct search methods for locating the optimum of a design problem with a single objective function
• Guided random search and network techniques
• Optimizing multiple objective function problems
• Sensitivity analysis
• Multi-disciplinary design and optimization architectures
• Knowledge based engineering, KBE
• Uncertainty-based multidisciplinary design optimization
• Ways and means for control and reduction of the optimization computational cost and elapsed time.