TY  - BOOK
AU  - Elishakoff,Isaac
AU  - Ohsaki,Makoto
TI  - Optimization and anti-optimization of structures under uncertainty
SN  - 9781848164772
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London, Hackensack, NJ
PB  - Imperial College Press, Distributed by WorldScientific
KW  - Structural optimization
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Structural analysis (Engineering)
KW  - Structural stability
KW  - Computer-aided engineering
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-385) and indexes
N2  - 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
ER  -