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Authors: | V.K. Koumousis, P.G. Georgiou,S. Hern ndez |
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Affiliation: | a Institute of Structural Analysis and Aseismic Research, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou Campus 157 73, Greece b University of La Coruña, Campus de Elviña, La Coruña 15192, Spain |
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Abstract: | ADS Expert is an integrated system that (a) provides suggestions about suitable optimization algorithms for a particular structural optimization problem, (b) it offers explanations and guide lines, in the form of hypertext, that refer to the optimization strategy, optimizer and one dimensional search method, (c) it produces the required gradients for the objective function and the constraints using symbolic differentiation, (d) establishes a direct linking with ADS routines and (e) it monitors the evolution of the optimization process. The system can be used as an educational tool for structural optimization and as an efficient integrated system for small to medium size optimization problems for which the objective function and the constraints are given in the form of explicit functions of the design variables. The system is a Windows application and runs quite satisfactorily on PCs. |
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Keywords: | structural optimization expert systems hypertext |
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