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Teaching GuideTerm Higher Technical University College of Civil Engineering |
| Mestrado Universitario en Enxeñería de Camiños, Canais e Portos |
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| Structural Optimization |
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| Identifying Data | 2021/22 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Structural Optimization | Code | 632514025 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Official Master's Degree | 2nd four-month period |
First | Optional | 4.5 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| Introduction to optimum design | Conventional design methods. Concepts associated with design: Fixed and variable factors. The quality of design. Formulation of the optimum design: Design variables. Design constraints. Objective functions. Historical evolution of optimal design. Application of Kuhn-Tucker conditions. Optimization of simple elements. |
| Linear programming | Simplex method: Primal and dual formulation Limit analysis of structures formulated as linear programming problems Prestressed concrete design by linear programming |
| Unconstrained optimization | Extrema of single variable functions. Extrema of n-variable functions. Zero order methods: Conjugate directions method First order methods: Gradient-based methods Second order methods: Newton method |
| Constrained optimization | Penalty methods Method of feasible directions Sequence of linear problems Sequence of quadratic problems |
| Sensitivity analysis | Sensitivity analysis: Order and types Direct methods Adjoint variable methods Sensitivity analyses of stresses Sensitivity analyses of displacements Sensitivity analyses of truss structures Sensitivity analyses of frames |
| Computer codes of structural optimization. Structural applications | Introduction to MSC/Nastran Sol 200 Applications of structural optimization |
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