This book was developed while teaching a graduate course at several universities in the
United States. Europe and Israel. during the last two decades. The purpose of the book is to …

After the IUTAM Symposium on Optimization in Structural Design held in Warsaw in 1973, it
was clear to me that the time had come for organizing into a consistent body of thought the …

The theory of structural optimization has advanced considerably during the last three
decades as is illustrated by the vast number of published books, surveys, and papers on the …

Structural optimization is an important area related to both optimization and structural
engineering. Structural optimization problems are often used as benchmarks to validate new …

Optimization is a branch of mathematics concerned with obtaining the conditions that give
the extreme value of a function, or many functions, under given circumstances. In other …

Computational optimization methods have matured over the last few years due to extensive
research by applied mathematicians and engineers. These methods have been applied to …

The main object of this book is to present a reasonably comprehensive account of the
various established methods in mathematical programming in a manner acceptable to the …

A unified approach to various problems of structural optimization is presented. It is based on
a combination of mathematical models of different complexity. The models describe the …

IT is today widely recognized that an important class of structural design optimization
problems can be formulated and solved using mathematical programing methods. A …

" During the last two decades, research on structural optimization became increasingly
concerned with two aspects: the application of general numeri cal methods of optimization to …