Further Development of Improved Methods for Larger Scale Structural Synthesis.

Abstract

This report presents a general procedure for numerical design optimization based on the feasible direction finding problem (DFP) of Zoutendijk. The DFP is reformulated herein to allow treatment of multiple objective functions and efficient treatment of equality and inequality constraints. This new DFP formulation is combined with an adaptive move strategy to produce a Mathematical Programming(MP) algorithm applicable to a broad class of nonlinear MP problems with continuous variables including generalized mini-max problems occurring in control and structural system design. The application of this procedure to structural optimization is described in detail. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA127243

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  • Michael Pappas

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  • New Jersey Institute of Technology

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