文档介绍：Structural Optimization
William R. Spillers · Keith M. MacBain
Structural Optimization
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William R. Spillers Keith M. MacBain
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Preface
Contemporary structural optimization has it roots in the 1960s with Lucien
Schmidt’s seminal Prior to that time there were no texts on nonlinear pro-
gramming and if you wanted to do optimization you were relegated to using linear
programming. Once mathematical programming was discovered by designers it
was thought that engineering design, as an area of study, was over since all you
had to do was formulate your design as a nonlinear programming problem and in-
voke some canned solver. That turned out not to be the case.
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