Swift Analysis of Civil Engineering Structures Using Graph Theory Methods
Author(s): Ali Kaveh, Hossein Rahami, Iman Shojaei
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Switzerland
Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN-13: 9783030455514, 978-3030455514
Synopsis
This book proposes and validates a number of methods and shortcuts for frugal engineers, which will allow them to significantly reduce the computational costs for analysis and reanalysis and, as a result, for structural design processes. The need for accuracy and speed in analyzing structural systems with ever-tighter design tolerances and larger numbers of elements has been relentlessly driving forward research into methods that are capable of analyzing structures at a reasonable computational [url] methods presented are of particular value in situations where the analysis needs to be repeated hundreds or even thousands of times, as is the case with the optimal design of structures using different metaheuristic [url] methods that are not only applicable to skeletal structures, but by extension also to continuum models, this book will appeal to researchers and engineers involved in the computer-aided analysis and design of structures, and to software developers in this field. It also serves as a complement to previous books on the optimal analysis of large-scale structures utilizing concepts of symmetry and regularity. Further, its novel application of graph-theoretical methods is of interest to mathematicians.
