Neural Networks in the Analysis and Design of Structures

Neural Networks in the Analysis and Design of Structures
Author: Zenon Waszczysznk
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2014-05-04
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3709124840

Neural Networks are a new, interdisciplinary tool for information processing. Neurocomputing being successfully introduced to structural problems which are difficult or even impossible to be analysed by standard computers (hard computing). The book is devoted to foundations and applications of NNs in the structural mechanics and design of structures.

CRC Handbook of Thermal Engineering

CRC Handbook of Thermal Engineering
Author: Frank Kreith
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 1204
Release: 1999-12-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781420050424

To be successful in the international marketplace, corporations must have access to the latest developments and most recent experimental data. Traditional handbooks of heat transfer stress fundamental principles, analytical approaches to thermal problems, and elegant solutions to classical problems. The CRC Handbook of Thermal Engineering is not a traditional handbook. Engineers in industry need up-to-date, accessible information on the applications of heat and mass transfer-The CRC Handbook of Thermal Engineering provides it. Peer reviewed articles-selected on the basis of their current relevance to the development of new products-provide in-depth treatment of applications in diverse fields, such as: Bioengineering Desalination Electronics Energy conservation Food processing Measurement techniques in fluid flow and heat transfer You'll find complete, up-to-date information on the latest development in the field, including: Recent advances in thermal sciences Microthermal design Compact heat exchangers Thermal optimization Exergy analysis A unique, one-stop resource for all your thermal engineering questions From the basics of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat and mass transfer, to comprehensive treatment of current applications, the latest computational tools, to data tables for the properties of gases, liquids, and solids, The CRC Handbook of Thermal Engineering has it all!

Frontiers in Global Optimization

Frontiers in Global Optimization
Author: Christodoulos A. Floudas
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 590
Release: 2013-12-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 146130251X

Global Optimization has emerged as one of the most exciting new areas of mathematical programming. Global optimization has received a wide attraction from many fields in the past few years, due to the success of new algorithms for addressing previously intractable problems from diverse areas such as computational chemistry and biology, biomedicine, structural optimization, computer sciences, operations research, economics, and engineering design and control. This book contains refereed invited papers submitted at the 4th international confer ence on Frontiers in Global Optimization held at Santorini, Greece during June 8-12, 2003. Santorini is one of the few sites of Greece, with wild beauty created by the explosion of a volcano which is in the middle of the gulf of the island. The mystic landscape with its numerous mult-extrema, was an inspiring location particularly for researchers working on global optimization. The three previous conferences on "Recent Advances in Global Opti mization", "State-of-the-Art in Global Optimization", and "Optimization in Computational Chemistry and Molecular Biology: Local and Global approaches" took place at Princeton University in 1991, 1995, and 1999, respectively. The papers in this volume focus on de terministic methods for global optimization, stochastic methods for global optimization, distributed computing methods in global optimization, and applications of global optimiza tion in several branches of applied science and engineering, computer science, computational chemistry, structural biology, and bio-informatics.

Practical Handbook of Genetic Algorithms

Practical Handbook of Genetic Algorithms
Author: Lance D. Chambers
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 602
Release: 2019-09-17
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9781420050080

Practical Handbook of Genetic Algorithms, Volume 3: Complex Coding Systems contains computer-code examples for the development of genetic algorithm systems - compiling them from an array of practitioners in the field. Each contribution of this singular resource includes: unique code segments documentation descripti

Space Structures 5

Space Structures 5
Author: G. A. R. Parke
Publisher: Thomas Telford
Total Pages: 924
Release: 2002
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780727731739

These Proceedings are based on the Fifth International Conference on Space Structures, organised by the University of Surrey. Produced as a 2-volume set, they contain original and innovative information on space structures from leading engineers and architects from around the world.

Fuzzy Evolutionary Computation

Fuzzy Evolutionary Computation
Author: Witold Pedrycz
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1461561353

As of today, Evolutionary Computing and Fuzzy Set Computing are two mature, wen -developed, and higbly advanced technologies of information processing. Bach of them has its own clearly defined research agenda, specific goals to be achieved, and a wen setUed algorithmic environment. Concisely speaking, Evolutionary Computing (EC) is aimed at a coherent population -oriented methodology of structural and parametric optimization of a diversity of systems. In addition to this broad spectrum of such optimization applications, this paradigm otTers an important ability to cope with realistic goals and design objectives reflected in the form of relevant fitness functions. The GA search (which is often regarded as a dominant domain among other techniques of EC such as evolutionary strategies, genetic programming or evolutionary programming) delivers a great deal of efficiency helping navigate through large search spaces. The main thrust of fuzzy sets is in representing and managing nonnumeric (linguistic) information. The key notion (whose conceptual as weH as algorithmic importance has started to increase in the recent years) is that of information granularity. It somewhat concurs with the principle of incompatibility coined by L. A. Zadeh. Fuzzy sets form a vehic1e helpful in expressing a granular character of information to be captured. Once quantified via fuzzy sets or fuzzy relations, the domain knowledge could be used efficiently very often reducing a heavy computation burden when analyzing and optimizing complex systems.

Neural Computing for Structural Mechanics

Neural Computing for Structural Mechanics
Author: B. H. V. Topping
Publisher:
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1997
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

Describing the application of artificial neural networks to structural mechanics, this book will be of interest to engineers, computer scientists and mathematicians working on the application of neural computing to structural mechanics and in particular finite element problems. It is accompanied by a voucher for a free software disk.

Advances in Structural Engineering—Optimization

Advances in Structural Engineering—Optimization
Author: Sinan Melih Nigdeli
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2020-12-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 303061848X

This book is an up-to-date source for computation applications of optimization, prediction via artificial intelligence methods, and evaluation of metaheuristic algorithm with different structural applications. As the current interest of researcher, metaheuristic algorithms are a high interest topic area since advance and non-optimized problems via mathematical methods are challenged by the development of advance and modified algorithms. The artificial intelligence (AI) area is also important in predicting optimum results by skipping long iterative optimization processes. The machine learning used in generation of AI models also needs optimum results of metaheuristic-based approaches. This book is a great source to researcher, graduate students, and bachelor students who gain project about structural optimization. Differently from the academic use, the chapter that emphasizes different scopes and methods can take the interest and help engineer working in design and production of structural engineering projects.