STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION

(Autumn 2011)

 

 

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 SYLLABUS

 

Introduction and scope; Simultaneous failure mode and design; Classical extremal problems and calculus of variation, variational principles with constraints, linear programming, integer programming, nonlinear programming, dynamic programming, geometric and stochastic programming; Applications to structural steel and concrete members, trusses and frames, Design under frequency constraint, design of layout