Language: English - ISBN-10: 1848164777 - ISBN-13: 978-1848164772
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.