The First World Congress of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (WCSMO-1) was held in Goslar, Lower Saxony, Germany from 28 May to 2 June 1995. Its aim was to bring together, at a single international meeting, researchers and practitioners in the field of structural optimization. This aim was met and these proceedings contain contributed papers presented at WCSMO-1, demonstrating the strong activity, recent advances and increasing importance of the field of optimum design. The book facilitates overview and easy access to these papers by categorizing them under 26 topics of modern optimization and by providing author and keyword indices.
Part 1 Lectures: algorithms, a new separable approximation scheme for
topological problems and optimization problems characterized by a large
number of design variables, P. Duysinx et al; approximation concepts - shape
optimization strategies using the multi-point approximation method and
adaptive mesh refinement, F. van Keulen et al; truss lay-out - layout
optimization using reduction and expansion processes, U. Kirsch; topology
optimization - the perimeter method - a new approach to variable-topology
shape design, R.B. Haber et al; optimum design of lattice continuum material
suggested by mechanical adaptation model of cancellous bone, M. Takana et al;
some recent extensions in the distribution of isotropic material, H.P.
Mlejnek; laminates - anti-optimization technique for designing composite
structures, M. Lombardi et al; shape optimization - models for shape
optimization of dynamically loaded machine parts, J. Grunwald and E. Schnak;
design parameterization - hierarchical modelling in shape optimization, A.
Falk et al; analysis and optimization - an efficiency study of the
simultaneous analysis and design of structures, A.G. Striz et al; non-linear
elasticity - shape design sensitivity analysis of hyperelastic solids, K.K.
Choi and W. Duan; plasticity - analysis and optimization of weakly coupled
thermo-elasto-plastic systems with applications to weldment design, P.
Michaleris et al; viscoelasticity - some general theorems on optimality of
disks with respect to ductile creep rupture, K. Szuwalski; plates and shells
- optimization of stiffened sandwich plates under static and vibration
damping constraints calculating the reduced thickness of the stiffened face,
F.J. Szabo; optimal structural control and design - integrated optimal
structural and control design, J.-S. Ou and N. Kikuchi; dynamic loads -
optimal design of one-dimensional distributed-parameter structures for
forced-mode compliance, I. Takewaki and T. Nakamura; multiple eigenvalues -
layout design of plate reinforcements with a buckling load criterion, J.
Folgado et al; optimal buckling design of composite plates, J.S. Hansen;
postbuckling - design trends of minimum-weight blade-stiffened composite
panel for postbuckling response, C.A. Perry and Z. Gurdal; non-conservative
problems - optimization of a fluid-conveying tubes, M. Langthjem; fluid flow
problems - shape optimization for a fluid-heat coupled system, D. Chenais et
al; multicriterion optimization - a multicriteria view of the Rayleigh
quotient, W. Stadler; multidisciplinary optimization - dynamic optimization
of space structures and recent developments of MCADS, Y. Gu and G. Cheng.
Part 2 Decomposition methods: decomposition of simultaneous analysis and
design models, N. Michelena et al; multibody systems - sensitivity analysis
of mechanisms based on the joint coordinate method, J.M. Hansen and D.A.
Tortorelli; reliability based optimization - design sensitivity (Part
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