Engineering

This new “hands-on” text focuses on the implementation of optimization in engineering. Offering a strong foundation and coverage of theory, Optimization Concepts and Applications in Engineering provides the student with experiential learning through the text's special attention to implementation as well as its accompanying computer programs—all on a single platform —on disk.

• Features reliable and tested computer programs of real-world optimization problems not found in other texts.
• Tests students' knowledge with various exercise problems and solved examples.
• Offers detailed discussion of algorithms, their implementation and computer programs with source code.
• Includes a chapter on Structural Optimization/Finite Element-based Optimization, designed especially—though not exclusively— in Structural Optimization courses in mechanical/ civil/aerospace engineering departments.
• Offers detailed coverage of:
• duality methods in Chapters 6.
• non-gradient methods in Chapter Seven.
• sensitivity in linear programming.
• gradient methods for constrained minimization.
• shape and topology optimization of structures with computer programs.
• Includes chapters on Dynamic Programming and Pareto Optimality.

1. Preliminary Concepts.
2. One Dimensional Unconstrained Minimization.
3. Unconstrained Minimization.
4. Linear Programming.
5. Constrained Minimization.
6. Penalty Function and Duality Based Methods.
7. Direct Search Methods for Nonlinear Optimization.
8. Integer and Discrete Programming.
9. Dynamic Programming.
10. Optimization Applications for Transportation, Assignment, and Network Problems.
11. Pareto Optimality.
12. Finite-Element-Based Optimization.
Index.

Optimization  (Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering)
Optimization  [CORE TEXTS]   (Industrial Engineering)

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