Structural Sensitivity Analysis and Optimization




Mechanical Engineering Series

Frederic F. Ling Series Editor

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Preface

Structural design sensitivity analysis concerns the relationship between design variables available to the design engineer and structural responses determined by the laws of mechanics. The dependence of response measures such as displacement, stress, strain, natural frequency, buckling load, acoustic response, frequency response, noise-vibrationharshness

(NVH), thermoelastic response, and fatigue life on the material

property, sizing, component

shape, and configuration design variables

is implicitly defined through the governing

equations of structural

mechanics. In this text, first- and second-order design sensitivity

analyses are presented for static and dynamics

responses of both linear and nonlinear

structural systems,

including elastoplastic and frictional contact problems.


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