This volume provides an up-to-date overview of major advances, emerging trends, and projected industrial applications in the field of multidisciplinary optimization. It concentrates on the current status of the field, exposes commonalities, innovative, promising, and speculative methods. This book provides a view of today’s multidisciplinary optimization environment through a balenced theoretical and practical treatment. The contributors are the foremost authorities in each area of specialisation.
Author(s): Jan Blachut, Hans A. Eschenauer (eds.)
Series: International Centre for Mechanical Sciences 425
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Wien
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 318
Tags: Mechanics
Front Matter....Pages ii-xxv
Multidisciplinary Optimization Procedure in Design Processes....Pages 1-51
Old and New Non-Gradient Methods in Engineering Optimization....Pages 53-105
Optimal Engineering Design by Means of Stochastic Optimization Methods....Pages 107-158
Response Surface Approximations for Engineering Optimization....Pages 159-203
Modelling and Approximation Strategies in Optimization — Global and Mid-Range Approximations, Response Surface Methods, Genetic Programming, Low / High Fidelity Models....Pages 205-256
Strategies for Modeling, Approximation, and Decomposition in Genetic Algorithms Based Multidisciplinary Design....Pages 257-318
