Numerical Optimization Techniques for Engineering Design

This book describes numerical optimization techniques, with emphasis on applications to engineering design. These methods may be used to minimize/maximize one or more functions with limits, or constraints, on others. Optimization may be used with almost any computer based analysis program to efficiently improve an engineering design. Chapter 1 presents basic concepts of function minimization. Chapter 2 deals with minimizing functions of one variable. Chapter 3 describes methods for minimizing unconstrained functions of many variables. Chapters 4 through 9 deal with general constrained optimization. Chapter 10 describes the specific subject of structural optimization and Chapter 11 deals with general applications in mechanical, automotive and aerospace engineering. Numerous references are provided for further study. A CD-ROM is included which contains demonstration versions of the VisualDOC and DOT general optimization programs and the GENESIS structural optimization program from Vanderplaats Research & Development.Vanderplaats, Garrett N. is the author of 'Numerical Optimization Techniques for Engineering Design', published 2005 under ISBN 9780944956021 and ISBN 0944956025.