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Numerical optimization methods offer an efficient design methodology for engineering design. The concepts are not particularly difficult, it is only that they are unfamiliar to most practicing engineers. The purpose here is to outline the general methods of numerical optimization and to identify their basic features. Several basic optimization strategies will be described to demonstrate just how optimization can solve the engineering design problem.
Relative to other applications, structural optimization is a special case that has received considerable attention in the past 30 years. Presently, most major finite element analysis program suppliers are adding optimization to their codes. In Part II of this paper, some recent approximation methods are outlined which help improve efficiency for structural optimization.
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Vanderplaats, G.N. (1992). An Assessment of Current Non-Linear Programming Algorithms for Structural Design, Part I: Basic Algorithms. In: Topping, B.H.V. (eds) Optimization and Artificial Intelligence in Civil and Structural Engineering. NATO ASI Series, vol 221. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2490-6_8
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