Course Catalog 2008-2009 Basic Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Course´s person responsible

Juhani Koski

Implementations

No implementations

Requirements

Exercises, team work and a written examination.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Different formulations of structural optimization problems. Linear programming in plasticity. Unconstrained nonlinear programming problem. Basic algorithms for the numerical solution of the optimization problem. Kuhn-Tucker conditions and general sensitivity analysis. Approximations. Discrete and global optimization. Sensitivity computations based on FEM. Shape optimization. Dual theory. Optimality criteria methods. Decomposition of large problems. Multicriterion optimization. Computer packages for FEM-based structural optimization.

Evaluation criteria for the course

Passed written examination or written intermediate examinations and accepted exercises.

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Partial passing:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
Book	Elements of Structural Optimization	R., T., Haftka and Z., Gurdal			Kluwer, 1992		English
Book	Optimum Structural Design	U., Kirsch			Springer-Verlag, 1993		English

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Last modified	13.08.2008
Modifier	Leena Ronimus