Abstract: Recently, structural optimization has become an important tool for structural designers, because it allows a better exploitation of material, thus decreasing a structure’s self-weight and saving material costs. Moreover, ...

Abstract: An improved formula to determine the equivalent viscous damping ratio of a single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) bilinear oscillator is proposed in this paper, which simultaneously considers the influence of the initial period, ...

Abstract: As a structural optimization technique, topology optimization is an important tool for helping designers to determine the most suitable shape of a structure. With this powerful tool, designers can define families of candidate ...

Abstract: As a structural optimization technique, topology optimization is an important tool for helping designers to determine the most suitable shape of a structure. With this powerful tool, designers can define families of candidate ...