Introduction of Optimum Structural Design and its Recent Developments

Abstract

During the last four decades a significant amount of research has been published in the area of structural optimization. These papers are dealing with development of algorithms and their advantages in numerical solutions along with engineering applications. Chronologically the publications may be roughly classified as follows: mathematical programming, optimality criteria, and genetic algorithms. the objective functions (cost function) are also comprehensively investigated and may also be classified as: minimum weight, minimum cost, and multi-objective function. This paper introduces the fundamentals related to the algorithms, cost functions, constraints, and numerical procedures of the aforementioned optimization techniques and then advances to sophisticated application of the techniques for optimum design of various structural systems. It is hoped that the practicing engineers can closely follow the developments of various methods and appropriately select them as the powerful design tool for their needs in order to achieve better design in the real construction world.

Department(s)

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

978-020387559-9;978-041549875-3

Document Type

Article - Journal

Document Version

Citation

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2024 Taylor and Francis Group; Tayloe and Francis, All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Jan 2009

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