STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION

(Autumn 2011)

 

 

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 REFERENCES

 

·          Arora, J.S., Introduction to Optimum Design, McGraw Hill, 1989

·          Haug, E.J. and Arora, J.S., Applied Optimal Design, Wiley Interscience, 1979.

·          Kirsch, U., Structural Optimization: Fundamentals and Applications, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1993.

·          Haftka, R.T. and Gurdal, Z., Elements of Structural Optimization, Third Revised Edition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 101 Philip Dr., Norwell, MA 02061, 1992.

·          Vanderplaats, G.N., Numerical Optimization Techniques for Engineering Design: With Applications, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, New York, 1984.

·          Reklaitis, G.V., Ravindaran, A. and Ragsdell, K.M., Engineering Optimization: Methods and Applications, Wiley-Interscience, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1983.

·          Morris, A.J. (Ed.), Foundations of Optimization: A Unified Approach, Wiley-Interscience, John Wiley and Sons, New York, New York, 1982.

·          Kirsch, U., Optimum Structural Design, McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., New York, New York, 1981.

·          Gill, P.E., Murray, W., and Wright, M.H., Practical Optimization, Academic Press, New York, New York, 1981.

·          Luenberger, D.G., Linear and Nonlinear Programming, Addison-Wesley, 1983.

·          Fletcher, R., Practical Methods of Optimizations, Second Edition, Wiley-Interscience, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, New York, 1987.

·          Bazarra, M.S. and Shetty, C.M., Nonlinear Programming: Theory and Algorithms, John Wiley, New York, New York, 1979.

·          Papalambros, P.Y. and Wilde, D.J., Principles of Optimal Design: Modeling and Computation, Cambridge University Press, 2000.

·          Arora, J.S., Editor, Guide to Structural Optimization, ASCE Manuals and Reports on Engineering Practice No. 90, American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, VA 20191, 1997.

·          Avriel, M. and Golany, B., Mathematical Programming for Industrial Engineers, Marcel and Dekker, New York, 1996.

·          Berteskas, D.P., Nonlinear Programming, Athena Scientific, Belmont, MA 1995.

·          Fang, Shu-Cherng and Puthenpura, S., Linear Optimization and Extensions, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1993.

·          Hertog, D. den, Interior Point Approach to Linear, Quadratic and Convex Programming, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht 1994.

·          Hestenes, M., Conjugate Directions Methods in Optimization, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1980.

·          Jeter, Melvyn W., Mathematical Programming: An Introduction to Optimization, Marcel Dekker, New York, NY 1986.

·          Nash, S.G. and Sofer, A., Linear and Nonlinear Programming, McGraw Hill, New York, NY 1996.

·          Padberg, M., Linear Optimization and Extensions, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1995.

·          Pierre, D.A. and Lowe, M.J., Mathematical Programming via Augmented Lagrangian: An Introduction with Computer Programs, Addison-Wesley, Reading MA 1975.

·          Pshenichnyi, B.N., The Linearization Method for Constrained Optimization, Springer-Verlag,Berlin, 1994.

·          Schittkowski, K., More Examples for Nonlinear Programming Codes, Springer_Verlag, Berlin, 1987.

·          Wright, S.J., Primal-Dual Interior Point Methods, SIAM, Philadelphia, 1997

 

 

 

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Lecture notes are prepared based on published text-books, reference books, reports, papers, own research work and

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