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Structural Optimization — a Need in Design Processes?

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Engineering Optimization in Design Processes

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After being able to determine the structural behaviour by means of finite methods, an important goal of engineering activities is to improve and to optimize technical designs, structural components and structural assemblies. The task of structural optimization is to support the engineer in searching for the best possible design alternatives of specific structures. The “best possible” or “optimal” structure is the structure which is highly corresponding to the designer’s desired concept whilst at the same time meeting the functional, manufacturing and application. e.g. all multidisciplinary requirements. In comparison to the “trial and error”- method generally used in the engineering environment and based on intuitive heuristic approach. the determination of optimal solutions by applying mathematical optimization procedures is more reliable and efficient if correctly applied. These procedures will be a need in the design process and they are already increasingly entering the industrial practice.

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  1. Research Laboratory for Applied Structural Optimization at the Institute of Mechanics and Control Engineering, University of Siegen, Germany

    H. A. Eschenauer

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  1. Institute of Mechanics and Control Engineering, University of Siegen, D-5900, Siegen, Germany

    Hans A. Eschenauer

  2. Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center, Institute of Materials and Solid State Research IV, D-7500, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Claus Mattheck

  3. Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Aalborg University, DK-9220, Aalborg, Denmark

    Niels Olhoff

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Eschenauer, H.A. (1991). Structural Optimization — a Need in Design Processes?. In: Eschenauer, H.A., Mattheck, C., Olhoff, N. (eds) Engineering Optimization in Design Processes. Lecture Notes in Engineering, vol 63. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84397-6_1

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