Abstract: The paper outlines a project to incorporate digital images and the world wide web into the teaching of structural design for buildings, using an approach that is both highly visual and theoretically rigorous. A key objective ...

Abstract: Although computer analysis has created invaluable benefits in structural design, several structural experts have expressed concern about the impact of computers on younger engineers. Computers clearly help develop insight ...

Abstract: This paper describes and demonstrates modifications of the harmony search method to support multimodal structural optimization. Several researchers have recognized the potential of population-based optimization methods, ...

Abstract: The development of computer‐integrated design systems requires formal models of engineering design. Object‐oriented approaches promise to have a major impact in this area. Two types of engineering design models that could ...