Optimization and anti-optimization of structures under uncertainty

The volume presents a collaboration between internationally recognized experts on anti-optimization and structural optimization, and summarizes various novel ideas, methodologies and results studied over 20 years. The book vividly demonstrates how the concept of uncertainty should be incorporated in a rigorousmanner during the process of designing real-world structures. The necessity of anti-optimization approach is first demonstrated, then the anti-optimizationtechniques are applied to static, dynamic and buckling problems, thus covering the broadest possible set of applications. Finally, anti-optimization is fully utilized by a combination of structural optimization to produce the optimaldesign considering the worst-case scenario. This is currently the only book that covers the combination of optimization and anti-optimization. It shows howvarious optimization techniques are used in the novel anti-optimization technique, and how the structural optimization can be exponentially enhanced by incorporating the concept of worst-case scenario, thereby increasing the safety of the structures designed in various fields of engineering. INDICE: Optimization or Making the Best in the Presence of Certainty/Uncertainty; General Formulation of Anti-Optimization; Anti-Optimization in Static Problems; Anti-Optimization in Buckling; Anti-Optimization in Vibration; Anti-Optimization via FEM-Based Interval Analysis; Anti-Optimization and Probabilistic Design; Hybrid Optimization with Anti-Optimization under Uncertainty or Making the Best Out of the Worst.

• ISBN: 978-1-84816-477-2
• Editorial: Imperial College
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 424
• Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés