Optimal Design with Advanced Materials

P. Pedersen

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9780444898692
• eBook ISBN:
  9780444600301
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Civil Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Optimal design with advanced materials is becoming a very progressive and challenging domain within applied mechanics. The increasing use of advanced materials, such as anisotropic fiber composites and ceramics, is instigating new developments to be made within constitutive modelling and the computational methods of analysis, sensitivity analysis and optimization. A new dimension of optimal design is being realised by the direct tailoring and building of new materials. Research in this area is accelerating rapidly with the results already being applied to high technology industries. Two vital high technology research areas covered in this volume include homogenization and smart materials/structures. The 31 papers will prove an indispensable reference source for all those involved in the interdisciplinary research and development aspects of mechanics, materials and mathematics in the design of advanced materials.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Optimal Design with Advanced Materials
• Copyroght Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Frithiof Niordson anniversary
• Chapter 1. Topology design using a material with self–optimizing microstructure
• Chapter 2. Simulation of Natural Adaptation of Bone Material and Application in Optimum Composite Design
• Chapter 3. Optimal design of anisotropic structural elements
• Chapter 4. Optimal design based on power–law non-linear elasticity1
• Chapter 5. Optimal design with highly deformable materials
• Chapter 6. Stereological Quantification of the Microstructure Morphology for Composite Materials
• Chapter 7. Tensile Properties of Whisker Reinforced Metals: Variations with Grain Size
• Chapter 8. Parameter Identification for Nonlinear Constitutive Models: Finite Element Simulation – Optimization – Nontrivial Experiments
• Chapter 9. Natural vibrations of free thick plates and identification of transverse shear moduli
• Chapter 10. Elaboration of Optimal Design Models for Objects from Data of Experiments
• Chapter 11. Fundamental aspects of selecting materials based on NDI for delamination
• Chapter 12. Convex and fuzzy modelling of uncertainties in the optimal design of composite structures
• Chapter 13. Topology optimization of bi–material structures1
• Chapter 14. Design of crack-insensitive composite laminates
• Chapter 15. Optimum design of laminated plates with respect to eigenvalues
• Chapter 16. Optimal Design with Damping Materials for Vibration Reduction
• Chapter 17. Topology and Shape Optimization Methods for Structural Dynamic Problems
• Chapter 18. Heuristic Optimisation of Composite Structural Components
• Chapter 19. Composite structures preliminary design : The satisfaction of mechanical requirements
• Chapter 20. Optimal Design of Composite and Fibre–Reinforced Plates
• Chapter 21. Layup Optimization of Composite Material Structures
• Chapter 22. A model for layout optimization of plate structures
• Chapter 23. Optimal design of advanced materials
• Chapter 24. On optimal end closures made from woven CFRP
• Chapter 25. Discrete and continuous reinforcement of materials
• Chapter 26. Optimization of composite topology for doubly-curved laminated shells under buckling constraints
• Chapter 27. Direct relaxation of optimal layout problems for plates1
• Chapter 28. Necessary Weierstrass conditions in problems of an optimal structural design
• Chapter 29. On Implementation of Partial Relaxation for Optimal Structural Compliance Problems
• Chapter 30. Effects in the Optimization Using Brittle and Ductile Materials
• Chapter 31. Optimal distribution of fibers in reinforced ceramics
• AUTHOR INDEX
• SUBJECT INDEX
• LIST OF PARTICIPANTS