This book was developed while teaching a graduate course at several
universities in the United States. Europe and Israel. during the
last two decades. The purpose of the book is to introduce the
fundamentals and applications of optimum structural design. Much
work has been done in this area recently and many studies have been
published. The book is an attempt to collect together selected
topics of this literature and to present them in a unified
approach. It meets the need for an introductory text covering the
basic concepts of modem structural optimization. A previous book by
the author on this subject ("Optimum Structural Design." published
by McGraw-Hill New York in 1981 and by Maruzen Tokyo in 1983). has
been used extensively as a text in many universities throughout the
world. The present book reflects the rapid progress and recent
developments in this area. A major difficulty in studying
structural optimization is that integration of concepts used in
several areas. such as structural analysis. numerical optimization
and engineering design. is necessary in order to solve a specific
problem. To facilitate the study of these topics. the book
discusses in detail alternative problem formulations. the
fundamentals of different optimization methods and various
considerations related to structural design. The advantages and the
limitations of the presented approaches are illustrated by numerous
examples.
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