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Optimization and Artificial Intelligence in Civil and Structural Engineering

Volume I: Optimization in Civil and Structural Engineering

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. B. H. V. Topping

    1. Department of Civil and Offshore Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series E: (NSSE, volume 221)

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. The Optimization of Civil Engineering Networks

    • Andrew B. Templeman
    Pages 1-18

  3. Fuzzy Sets Applied to Civil Engineering Systems

    • Colin B. Brown
    Pages 19-32

  4. Civil Engineering Optimizing and Satisficing

    • Colin B. Brown
    Pages 33-41

  5. Network Structuring Algorithms

    • D. G. Elms
    Pages 43-60

  6. Risk Balancing Approaches

    • D. G. Elms
    Pages 61-70

  7. Consistent Crudeness in System Construction

    • D. G. Elms
    Pages 71-85

  8. Entropy and Civil Engineering Optimization

    • Andrew B. Templeman
    Pages 87-105

  9. An Assessment of Current Non-Linear Programming Algorithms for Structural Design, Part I: Basic Algorithms

    • G. N. Vanderplaats
    Pages 107-125

  10. An Assessment of Current Non-Linear Programming Algorithms for Structural Design, Part II: Some Recent Approximation Methods

    • G. N. Vanderplaats
    Pages 127-141

  11. Classification and Comparison of LP Formulations for the Plastic Design of Frames

    • T. K. H. Tam, A. Jennings
    Pages 143-188

  12. On Some Properties of Optimum Structural Topologies

    • U. Kirsch
    Pages 189-209

  13. The Theorems of Structural and Geometric Variation for Engineering Structures

    • B. H. V. Topping
    Pages 211-222

  14. Optimal Design of Large Discretized Systems by Iterative Optimality Criteria Methods

    • G. I. N. Rozvany, W. Gollub, M. Zhou
    Pages 223-288

  15. Approximate Models for Structural Optimization

    • U. Kirsch
    Pages 289-325

  16. Computer-Automated Optimal Design of Structural Steel Frameworks

    • Donald E. Grierson
    Pages 327-353

  17. Optimal Design for Static and Dynamic Loading

    • B. Jüdt, J. Menkenhagen, G. Thierauf
    Pages 355-366

  18. Optimal Design and Optimization of Structures

    • K. Kayvantash, U. Schilling, G. Thierauf
    Pages 367-416

  19. Two-Stage Optimal Design in Concrete

    • W. Booz, G. Thierauf
    Pages 417-435

  20. Layout Optimization in Structural Design

    • G. I. N. Rozvany, W. Gollub, M. Zhou
    Pages 437-484
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About this book

This volume and its companion volume includes the edited versions of the principal lectures and selected papers presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Optimization and Decision Support Systems in Civil Engineering. The Institute was held in the Department of Civil Engineering at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh from June 25th to July 6th 1989 and was attended by eighty participants from Universities and Research Institutes around the world. A number of practising civil and structural engineers also attended. The lectures and papers have been divided into two volumes to reflect the dual themes of the Institute namely Optimization and Decision Support Systems in Civil Engineering. Planning for this ASI commenced in late 1986 when Andrew Templeman and I discussed developments in the use of the systems approach in civil engineering. A little later it became clear that much of this approach could be realised through the use of knowledge-based systems and artificial intelligence techniques. Both Don Grierson and John Gero indicated at an early stage how important it would be to include knowledge-based systems within the scope of the Institute. The title of the Institute could have been: 'Civil Engineering Systems' as this would have reflected the range of systems applications to civil engineering problems considered by the Institute. These volumes therefore reflect the full range of these problems including: structural analysis and design; water resources engineering; geotechnical engineering; transportation and environmental engineering.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Civil and Offshore Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

    B. H. V. Topping

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Optimization and Artificial Intelligence in Civil and Structural Engineering

  • Book Subtitle: Volume I: Optimization in Civil and Structural Engineering

  • Editors: B. H. V. Topping

  • Series Title: NATO Science Series E:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2490-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1955-9Published: 30 September 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4201-9Published: 04 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-2490-6Published: 14 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0168-132X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 653

  • Topics: Civil Engineering, Classical Mechanics, Engineering, general

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