Elishakoff, Isaac creator Ohsaki, Makoto text enk London Hackensack, NJ Imperial College Press Distributed by WorldScientific 2010 monographic eng

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xxii, 402 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. The volume presents a collaboration between internationally recognized experts on anti-optimization and structural optimization, and summarizes various novel ideas, methodologies and results studied over 20 years. The book vividly demonstrates how the concept of uncertainty should be incorporated in a rigorous manner during the process of designing real-world structures. The necessity of anti-optimization approach is first demonstrated, then the anti-optimization techniques are applied to static, dynamic and buckling problems, thus covering the broadest possible set of applications. Finally, anti-optimization is fully utilized by a combination of structural optimization to produce the optimal design considering the worst-case scenario. This is currently the only book that covers the combination of optimization and anti-optimization. It shows how various optimization techniques are used in the novel anti-optimization technique, and how the structural optimization can be exponentially enhanced by incorporating the concept of worst-case scenario, thereby increasing the safety of the structures designed in various fields of engineering specialized Isaac Elishakoff, Makoto Ohsaki Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-385) and indexes Structural optimization Mathematics Structural analysis (Engineering) Mathematics Structural stability Mathematics Computer-aided engineering 9781848164772 1848164777 UMP 110602 20251117150326.0 vtls000053660