Optimal Design of Flexural Systems
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Optimal Design of Flexural Systems

Beams, Grillages, Slabs, Plates and Shells

  1. 314 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Optimal Design of Flexural Systems

Beams, Grillages, Slabs, Plates and Shells

About this book

Optimal Design of Flexural Systems: Beams, Grillages, Slabs, Plates and Shells covers theoretical developments and optimal solutions for all boundary conditions that may be of practical or theoretical interest in the design of flexural systems. Organized into nine chapters, this book begins with a review of certain fundamental concepts of mechanics, calculus of variations, and optimal design. Subsequent chapters discuss in considerable details the theories of optimal plastic design, as well as the elastic and prestressed systems. Other chapters describe the theory of optimal flexure fields that give an absolute minimum statically admissible ""moment volume"" for plane systems, as well as the slabs and grillages optimized within various types of geometrical constraints. The last chapter evaluates experimental work and certain practical aspects of the optimization of flexural systems. This book will be of interest to graduate students, research workers, practicing engineers, and architects in structural engineering, architectural science, aerospace technology, solid mechanics, and applied mathematics.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Optimal Desigh of Flexural Systems: Beams, Grillages, Slabs, Plates and Shells
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. PREFACE
  7. INTRODUCTION
  8. SIGN CONVENTIONS
  9. LIST OF SYMBOLS
  10. CHAPTER 1. REVIEW OF SOME FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS
  11. CHAPTER 2. OPTIMAL PLASTIC DESIGN-SINGLE LOAD SYSTEM AND UNSPECIFIED COST DISTRIBUTION
  12. CHAPTER 3. OPTIMAL PLASTIC DESIGN-ALTERNATE AND MOVING LOADS,MULTI- COMPONENT SYSTEMS, PARTIALLY PREASSIGNED COST DISTRIBUTION AND GENERALISED COST FUNCTIONS
  13. CHAPTER 4. PLASTIC DESIGN-OPTIMIZATION OF SEGMENTATION,REACTIONS, GENERALISED LOAD, JOINTS,DISCRETIZATION AND SPECIFIED TOPOGRAPHY
  14. CHAPTER 5. OPTIMAL ELASTIC DESIGN
  15. CHAPTER 6. OPTIMAL FLEXURE FIELDS I:SIMPLE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS
  16. CHAPTER 7. OPTIMAL FLEXURE FIELDS II: GENERAL THEORIES
  17. CHAPTER 8. OPTIMAL PLASTIC DESIGN OF GRILLAGES AND FIBRE-REINFORCED PLATES OF CONSTRAINED GEOMETRY
  18. CHAPTER 9. IMPLICATIONS OF THE THEORETICAL RESULTS PRESENTED
  19. REFERENCES
  20. INDEX