ISSN:
0029-5981
Keywords:
optimum design
;
framed structures
;
non-linear analysis
;
Engineering
;
Numerical Methods and Modeling
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Mathematics
,
Technology
Notes:
The aim of this paper is to develop a structural optimization algorithm based on optimality criterion approach to achieve a minimum weight structure that satisfies a set of displacement constraints. Optimal designs are found considering both linear and non-linear behaviour of the structure and compared through an example problem. Many algorithms have been developed to determine the optimal minimum weight design of framed structures under a set of displacement constraints; however, in almost all of them linear analyses are performed. This paper shows how the non-linear analysis will effect the optimal design of a structure. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Additional Material:
4 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
