Abstract: A computational environment suitable for optimum design of structures in the general class of plane frames is described. Design optimization is based on the use of a genetic algorithm in which a population of individual ...

Abstract: Structural design requires a knowledge of the displacements and stress resultants occurring in a structure so that the designer can be satisfied that all functional requirements and design constraints are met. It is usual ...

Abstract: Recently, an open, liquid-film concentrator has been both theoretically and experimentally evaluated for increasing evaporation and concentration rates above those for simple solar evaporator basins ...

Abstract: An experimental study of high-pressure waterjet peening on 7075-T6 aluminum alloy was conducted to investigate the effects of waterjet on high-cycle fatigue life and fatigue crack growth. Unnotched ...

Abstract: A methodology for developing optimized designs for symmetric-centerbody ramjet powered missiles, using a genetic algorithm as the driver for the system optimization process, has been developed. ...

Abstract: A new method is presented by which positions of peculiar kinematic interest, such as ends of travel, locking positions and points of “uncertainty,” in certain types of spatial mechanisms can ...