Download or read book Optimal Design of Framed Structure Under Multiple Loading Conditions Based on a Stability Criterion written by Shahram Pezeshk and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Optimal Design of Nonlinear Framed Structures Under Multiple Loading Conditions Based on a Stability Criterion written by Shahram Pezeshk and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An optimization-based design methodology is presented for improving the strength and overall stability of framed structures. The design methodology is a multiple-objective optimization procedure whose objective functions involve the buckling eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the structure. Designs are constrained to have constant weight. An iterative optimality criterion method is used to solve the optimization problem. The method provides a general tool for designing complex structures with nonlinear behavior and generally leads to designs with better limit strength and stability while avoiding nonlinear analysis in the optimization cycle. The approach is indirect, but is effective and efficient. The design procedure is developed for 2-D and 3-D nonlinear framed structures. Development and application of the optimization procedure for planar framed structures is presented first and is then extended to space-frame structures. Three-dimensional design problems are more complicated, but they yield insight into the real behavior of the structure and can help avoid some of the problems that might appear in the planar design procedure such as the need for out-of-plane buckling constraints. To control the vibration characteristics of the designs, frequency weighting functions are introduced and incorporated into the objective function. These weighting functions provide information about the vibrational characteristics of the design and can be used to avoid undesirable dynamic effects, such as resonance, by pushing the structure away from it while improving the overall stability and strength of the design. One of the novelties of the new design methodology is its ability to efficiently model and design structures under multiple loading conditions. These loading conditions include different factored loads, components of an earthquake, and geometric imperfections and can be applied to the structure simultaneously or independently. Several examples are presented to evaluate the validity of the underlying assumptions and to examine the performance of the procedure. By way of example it is shown that by improving the overall stability characteristics of structure under static loading, the dynamic performance of the structure is also improved.
Download or read book Recent Advances in Optimal Structural Design written by Scott A. Burns and published by ASCE Publications. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sponsored by the Technical Committee on Structural Design of the Technical Administrative Committee on Analysis and Computation of the Technical Activities Division of the Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE. This report documents the dramatic new developments in the field of structural optimization over the last two decades. Changes in both computational techniques and applications can be seen by developments in computational methods and solution algorithms, the role of optimization during the various stages of structural design, and the stochastic nature of design in relation to structural optimization. Topics include: Ømethods for discrete variable structural optimization; Ødecomposition methods in structural optimization; Østate of the art on the use of genetic algorithms in design of steel structures; Øconceptual design optimization of engineering structures; Øtopology and geometry optimization of trusses and frames; Øevolutionary structural optimization; Ødesign and optimization of semi-rigid framed structures; Øoptimized performance-based design for buildings; Ømulti-objective optimum design of seismic-resistant structures; and Øreliability- and cost-oriented optimal bridge maintenance planning. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography of journal papers on structural optimization published between 1987 and 1999.
Download or read book Optimal Structural Design written by Ronald A. Gellatly and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report considers the state of the art in methods of structural optimization. Mathematical programming based methods, while extremely successful with problems of moderate size tend to become prohibitively costly when applied to large scale structures. A novel approach to the weight optimization of indeterminate structures under multiple loading conditions with strength and displacement constraints has been developed and is presented herein. Using this method significant improvements in computational time have been achieved over direct numerical search methods. In some cases the numbers of iterations required to determine the least weight have been reduced by factors of over 20. The rate of convergence is independent of problem size permitting application to large scale structures. Examples of application of the new approach to a number of problems are included.
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Download or read book Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures written by American Society of Civil Engineers and published by Amer Society of Civil Engineers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Intelligent Robotics and Applications written by YongAn Huang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 919 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three volume set LNAI 10462, LNAI 10463, and LNAI 10464 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2017, held in Wuhan, China, in August 2017. The 235 papers presented in the three volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 310 submissions. The papers in this second volume of the set are organized in topical sections on industrial robot and robot manufacturing; mechanism and parallel robotics; machine and robot vision; robot grasping and control.
Download or read book Structural Dynamics written by Harry Grundmann and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proceedings contain contributions presented by authors from more than 30 countries at EURODYN 2002. The proceedings show recent scientific developments as well as practical applications, they cover the fields of theory of vibrations, nonlinear vibrations, stochastic dynamics, vibrations of structured elements, wave propagation and structure-borne sound, including questions of fatigue and damping. Emphasis is laid on vibrations of bridges, buildings, railway structures as well as on the fields of wind and earthquake engineering, repectively. Enriched by a number of keynote lectures and organized sessions the two volumes of the proceedings present an overview of the state of the art of the whole field of structural dynamics and the tendencies ot its further development.
Download or read book Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers written by American Society of Civil Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: v. 29-30 include papers of the International Engineering Congress, Chicago, 1893; v. 54 includes papers of the International Engineering Congress, St. Louis, 1904.
Download or read book Guidelines for the Design of Double Layer Grids written by Daniel A. Cuoco and published by ASCE Publications. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepared by the Task Committee on Double-Layer Grids of the Committee on Special Structures of the Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE. This report provides guidelines for the design of double-layer grids, a type of space frame. Space frames are three-dimensional, lattice-type structures that provide great rigidity and inherent redundancy. Space frames are one of the more efficient uses of structural materials, and they satisfy demand for large column-free areas. The most common example of a space frame is the double-layer grid, which consists of two parallel layers of top and bottom cords interconnected by inclined and/or vertical web members. This report provides an overview of double-layer grids and discusses their structural behavior. Various methods to analyze these structures?including static analysis, dynamic analysis, thermal analysis, and optimization analysis?are explored. This guide concludes with experimental studies involving double-layer grids and implications for design.
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Download or read book Optimal Structural Design Under Stability Constraints written by Antoni Gajewski and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first optimal design problem for an elastic column subject to buckling was formulated by Lagrange over 200 years ago. However, rapid development of structural optimization under stability constraints occurred only in the last twenty years. In numerous optimal structural design problems the stability phenomenon becomes one of the most important factors, particularly for slender and thin-walled elements of aerospace structures, ships, precision machines, tall buildings etc. In engineering practice stability constraints appear more often than it might be expected; even when designing a simple beam of constant width and variable depth, the width - if regarded as a design variable - is finally determined by a stability constraint (lateral stability). Mathematically, optimal structural design under stability constraints usually leads to optimization with respect to eigenvalues, but some cases fall even beyond this type of problems. A total of over 70 books has been devoted to structural optimization as yet, but none of them has treated stability constraints in a sufficiently broad and comprehensive manner. The purpose of the present book is to fill this gap. The contents include a discussion of the basic structural stability and structural optimization problems and the pertinent solution methods, followed by a systematic review of solutions obtained for columns, arches, bar systems, plates, shells and thin-walled bars. A unified approach based on Pontryagin's maximum principle is employed inasmuch as possible, at least to problems of columns, arches and plates. Parametric optimization is discussed as well.
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