OPTIMUM DESIGN OF STRUCTURALLY NONHOMOGENEOUS MATERIALS AND CONSTRUCTIONS WITH REQUIRED PROPERTIES

Based on mathematical modeling and computer simulation, the authors have investigated the problem of optimum design of composite materials and constructions with the required properties of plane and curvilinear symmetries in a variational statement. They have also performed a numerical analysis of their structure. Using the theory of continuation in parameter and structural analysis of differential equations describing the change in the properties of composite constructions, the authors have developed an effi cient procedure of nonlocal optimization of the structure of such constructions with the aim of imparting necessary properties to them.
   
Author:  E. L. Gusev and V. N. Bakulin
Keywords:  optimum design, nonhomogeneous structures, composite materials, variational statement, Pontryagin maximum principle
Page:  260