ISSN:
0934-4373
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
Notes:
Abstract Truss structures are optimized with respect to minimum weight with constraints on the value of some displacement and on the member stresses. The truss is considered made of an uncertain material, i.e. the value of the material constants are not known in a deterministic way, and each member may then exhibit a different value of stiffness, within a limited range of variation. The optimization must be done so that optimal solutions remain feasible for each value that the material constants may take for the considered uncertainty. In the present work a nonprobabilistic approach to uncertainty is used, and a variation of the material moduli with a, probabilistically speaking, uniform distribution over a convex and linearly bounded domain is considered. The two-step method is used to include the uncertainty within the optimization, where a diagonal quadratic approximation is used for the objective function and the constraints. Solutions for some of the most classical truss examples are found and compared with those obtained using nominal values of material constants.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01202825
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