Representing the proceedings of the OPTI 2012 conference on the optimum design of structures and materials, held in New Forest, UK in June, 2012, this collection of articles on structural and materials engineering showcases current scholarship in the use of computer design technologies in the optimization of processes and construction. Papers are divided into sections on structures, shape and topology optimization, civil engineering, aerospace structures, and evolving methods in design optimization, and individual entries discuss topics such as aerodynamic shape optimization of axial flow fan nose cones, optimization of underground gas storage, and isogeometric shape sensitivity analysis. Chapters include abstracts, illustrations, and tables. Contributors are academics in engineering fields from institutions around the world. The US office of WIT Press is Computational Mechanics. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Presenting the latest research discussed at the Twelfth International Conference on Computer Aided Optimum Design in Engineering, this book contains papers describing case studies in engineering; considering static, dynamic analysis and damage tolerance. Manufacturing and structural protection issues are discussed as well as emergent applications in fields such as biomechanics. Contributions also include numerical methods and different optimisation techniques.Nowadays, it is widely accepted that optimisation techniques have much to offer to those involved in the design of new industrial products. The formulation of optimum design has evolved from the time it was purely an academic topic, unable now to satisfy the requirements of real life prototypes. The development of new algorithms, the improvement of others, the appearance of powerful commercial computer codes with easy to use graphical interfaces and the revolution in the speed of computers has created a fertile field for the incorporation of optimisation in the design process in different engineering disciplines Topics covered include: Structural optimisation, Optimisation in biomechanics, Shape and topology optimisation, Industrial design optimisation cases, Evolutionary methods in design optimisation, Multi-level optimisation, Multidisciplinary optimisation, Reliability based optimisation, Material optimisation, Aerospace structures, Applications in mechanical and car engineering, New and enhanced formulations, Optimisation under extreme forces, Optimisation in aerodynamics, Optimisation in civil engineering, Life cost optimisation, Education issues in design optimisation, Commercial software for design optimisation.
