Book Name: | Cost Optimization of Structures by Hojjat Adeli |
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Language | English |
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In the course of the previous 45 years a major quantity of analysis has been printed within the space of structural optimization. The nice majority of these papers take care of the minimization of the burden of the construction. Whereas weight of a construction constitutes a major half of the associated fee, a minimal weight design will not be essentially the minimal price design. Solely a small fraction of the papers printed on structural optimization take care of the associated fee optimization downside.
Most of these papers take care of structural parts comparable to beams. Few journal papers have been printed on price optimization of life like three-dimensional constructions. As such, there’s a have to carry out analysis on price optimization of life like three-dimensional constructions, particularly giant constructions with tons of of members the place optimization can lead to substantial financial savings. The outcomes of such analysis efforts will probably be of nice worth to practising engineers. One other necessary motive for advocating and advancing the use of optimization expertise within the design of constructions is automating the difficult course of of structural design.
Within the ground-breaking ebook by H. Adeli and H. S. Park, Neurocomputing for Design Automation, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 1998, a patented mannequin was offered for totally automated design of very giant constructions and used for the totally automated design of a 144-story superhigh-rise metal modified tube-in-tube construction with over 20 000 members subjected to the precise constraints of generally used design code, the American Institute of Metal Building Allowable Stress Design (ASD) and Load and Resistance Issue Design (LRFD) codes.
Acknowledgments Right now, even essentially the most superior industrial design software program methods don’t present a completely automated system. Absolutely automated structural design and value optimization are the place the large-scale design expertise ought to be heading. As the primary ebook on price optimization of constructions we hope that this ebook will information the occupation in that path.
Elements of the work offered on this ebook had been printed by the authors in a quantity of journal articles in Journal of Structural Engineering, and Follow Periodical on Structural Design and Building (American Society of Civil Engineers), Pc-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering (Blackwell Publishers), Worldwide Journal for Numerical Strategies in Engineering (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd), and Worldwide Journal of House Structures (Multi-Science Publishing Firm) as famous within the record of references and acknowledged in varied chapters. Chapter 2 is predicated on two journal articles by the senior creator and his graduate scholar N.T. Cheng, and Chapter 3 is predicated on two journal articles by the senior creator and his graduate scholar and analysis affiliate Dr H. Kim and are reproduced by permission of the publishers of these journals as famous within the footnotes to those chapters. The junior creator expresses his honest gratitude and appreciation to Mr James E. Prevost of Barr & Prevost for his assist and understanding in finishing this work.
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