Robust Optimal Design of Beams Subject to Uncertain Loads

Optimality conditions are derived for the robust optimal design of beams subject to a combination of uncertain and deterministic transverse and boundary loads using a variational min-max approach. The potential energy of the beam is maximized to compute the worst case loading and minimized to determ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ismail Kucuk, Sarp Adali, Ibrahim Sadek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2009-01-01
Series:Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/841017

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