Bøker av Franklin Y. Cheng

Offering an accounting of smart structure systems, this book provides details on regulations, presents mathematical formulations, explores modeling, and discusses cost-efficiency and other practical considerations.

Structural optimization is based on rigorous mathematical formulation and requires computation algorithms for sizing structural elements and synthesizing systems. This book comprehensively presents optimization strategies, illustrated with examples of the design of elements and systems and presenting descriptions of the process and results.