Teaching GuideTerm Higher Technical University College of Civil Engineering |
Mestrado Universitario en Enxeñería de Camiños, Canais e Portos |
Subjects |
Structural Optimization |
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Identifying Data | 2020/21 | |||||||||||||
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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