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On Optimal Structures in Engineering

1991; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-642-84397-6_33

0176-5035

Peter Knödel,

Contact Mechanics and Variational Inequalities

In many applications of structural engineering, the designer wishes to achieve an ‘optimal’ structure. ’Optimal’ is then spoken about in terms like ’minimum weight with maximum performance’ or ’minimum costs with maximum performance’. The first and most strict of those demands defines light-weight structures, like they are being used in the air- and spacecraft engineering, where things have to be airbourne and money does (almost) not matter. The second of those demands defines light-weight structures of structural engineering (tanks and silos, trussed roofs, profiled sheeting), where things should not move after site-erection and money matters a lot.