Variational Methods For Structural Optimization - Hardcover

Cherkaev, Andrej

 
9780387984629: Variational Methods For Structural Optimization
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0387984623 ISBN 13: 9780387984629
Publisher: Springer, 2000

Synopsis

In recent decades, it has become possible to turn the design process into computer algorithms. By applying different computer oriented methods the topology and shape of structures can be optimized and thus designs systematically improved. These possibilities have stimulated an interest in the mathematical foundations of structural optimization. The challenge of this book is to bridge a gap between a rigorous mathematical approach to variational problems and the practical use of algorithms of structural optimization in engineering applications. The foundations of structural optimization are presented in a sufficiently simple form to make them available for practical use and to allow their critical appraisal for improving and adapting these results to specific models. Special attention is to pay to the description of optimal structures of composites; to deal with this problem, novel mathematical methods of nonconvex calculus of variation are developed. The exposition is accompanied by examples.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Synopsis

In recent decades, it has become possible to turn the design process into computer algorithms. By applying different computer oriented methods the topology and shape of structures can be optimized and thus designs systematically improved. These possibilities have stimulated an interest in the mathematical foundations of structural optimization. The challenge of this book is to bridge a gap between a rigorous mathematical approach to variational problems and the practical use of algorithms of structural optimization in engineering applications. The foundations of structural optimization are presented in a sufficiently simple form to make them available for practical use and to allow their critical appraisal for improving and adapting these results to specific models. Special attention is to pay to the description of optimal structures of composites; to deal with this problem, novel mathematical methods of nonconvex calculus of variation are developed. The exposition is accompanied by examples.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Springer
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0387984623
ISBN 13 
9780387984629
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
574

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9781461270386: Variational Methods for Structural Optimization: 140 (Applied Mathematical Sciences, 140)

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  1461270383 ISBN 13:  9781461270386
Publisher: Springer, 2012
Softcover