Optimization & Anti-Optimization Of...

by Makoto Ohsaki and Isaac Elishakoff

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848164777
• ISBN13: 9781848164772
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Imperial College Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.8"