The Earthquake Engineering Online ArchiveStructural Optimization of Discrete Systems Represented by Finite Element ModelsHartmann, Dietrich UCB/SESM-1984/08, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1984-06, 46 pages The report demonstrates how the coupling of a finite element model and a nonlinear optimization model leads to a new compound model, the structural optimization model. Available online: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/SEMM/SEMM-84-08.pdf (3 MB) |
