In a global climate where engineers are increasingly under pressure
to make the most of limited resources, there are huge potential
financial and environmental benefits to be gained by designing for
minimum weight. With "Mechanics of Optimal Structural Design, "
David Rees brings the original approach of weight optimization to
the existing structural design literature, providing a methodology
for attaining minimum weight of a range of structures under their
working loads. He addresses the current gap in education between
formal structural design teaching at undergraduate level and the
practical application of this knowledge in industry, describing the
analytical techniques that students need to understand before
applying computational techniques that can be easy to misuse
without this grounding. Shows engineers how to approach structural
design for minimum weight in clear, concise termsContains many new
least-weight design techniques, taking into consideration different
manners of loading and including new topics that have not
previously been considered within the least-weight themeConsiders
the demands for least-weight road, air and space vehicles for the
futureEnhanced by illustrative worked examples to enlighten the
theory, exercises at the end of each chapter that enable
application of the theory covered, and an accompanying website with
worked examples and solutions housed at www.wiley.com/go/rees
The least-weight analyses of basic structural elements ensure a
spread of interest with many applications in mechanical, civil,
aircraft and automobile engineering. Consequently, this book fills
the gap between the basic material taught at undergraduate level
and other approaches to optimum design, for example computer
simulations and the finite element method.
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