Engineering Optimization: Theory and Practice, 3rd Edition

Book Description:
A rigorous mathematical approach to identifying a set of design alternatives and selecting the best candidate from within that set, engineering optimization was developed as a means of helping engineers to design systems that are both more efficient and less expensive and to develop new ways of improving the performance of existing systems. Thanks to the breathtaking growth in computer technology that has occurred over the past decade, optimization techniques can now be used to find creative solutions to larger, more complex problems than ever before. As a consequence, optimization is now viewed as an indispensable tool of the trade for engineers working in many different industries, especially the aerospace, automotive, chemical, electrical, and manufacturing industries.

In Engineering Optimization, Professor Singiresu S. Rao provides an application-oriented presentation of the full array of classical and newly developed optimization techniques now being used by engineers in a wide range of industries. Essential proofs and explanations of the various techniques are given in a straightforward, user-friendly manner, and each method is copiously illustrated with real-world examples that demonstrate how to maximize desired benefits while minimizing negative aspects of project design.

Comprehensive, authoritative, up-to-date, Engineering Optimization provides in-depth coverage of linear and nonlinear programming, dynamic programming, integer programming, and stochastic programming techniques as well as several breakthrough methods, including genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, and neural network-based and fuzzy optimization techniques.

Designed to function equally well as either a professional reference or a graduate-level text, Engineering Optimization features many solved problems taken from several engineering fields, as well as review questions, important figures, and helpful references.

An indispensable working resource for practicing engineers

Engineering Optimization

Providing engineers with a rigorous, systematic method for rapidly zeroing in on the most innovative, cost-effective solutions to some of today's most challenging engineering design problems, optimization is a powerful tool of the trade for engineers in virtually every discipline. Now, in his latest book, Engineering Optimization, Singiresu S. Rao provides you with the most practical, up-to-date, and comprehensive coverage of new and classical optimization techniques currently in use throughout a wide range of industries. Designed to serve as both a daily working resource and an excellent graduate-level text, Engineering Optimization gives you:

• In-depth coverage of linear and nonlinear programming, dynamic programming, integer programming, and stochastic programming techniques
• New or recently developed methods, including genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, neural network-based and fuzzy optimization techniques
• Dozens of real-world design optimization examples taken from a wide range of industries
• Numerous solved problems and review questions
• An extensive bibliography

Engineering Optimization is a valuable working resource for engineers employed in practically all technological industries. It is also a superior didactic tool for graduate students of mechanical, civil, electrical, chemical, and aerospace engineering.

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Strength of Materials - N. M. Belyaev

 STRENGTH OF MATERIALS

Part I. Introduction. Tension and Compression. 
Chapter 1. Introduction. 
Chapter 2. Stress and Strain in Tension and Compression Within the Elastic Limit. Selection of Cross-sectional Area. 
Chapter 3. Experimental Study of Tension and Compression in Various Materials and the Basis of Selecting the Permissible Stresses.

Part II. Complicated Cases of Tension and Compression. 
Chapter 4. Design of Statically Indeterminate Systems form Permissible Stresses. 
Chapter 5. Account for Dead Weight in Tension and Compression. Design of Flexible Strings. 
Chapter 6. Compound Stressed State. Stress and Strain. 
Chapter 7. Strength of Materials in Compound Stress. 

Part III. Shear and Torsion
Chapter 8. Torsion. Strength and Rigidity of Twisted Bars. 
Chapter 9. Torsion. Strength and Rigidity of Twisted Bars. 
Part IV. Beading. Strength of Beams. 
Chapter 10. Internal Forces in Bending. Shearing-force and Bending-moment Diagrams. 
Chapter 11. Determination of Normal Stresses in Bending and Strength of Beams. 
Chapter 12. Determination of Moments f Inertia of Plane Figures. 
Chapter 13. Shearing and Principal Stresses in Beams. 
Chapter 14. Shear Centre. Composite Beams. 

Part V. Deformation of Beams due to Bending. 
Chapter 15. Analytical Method of Determining Deformations. 
Chapter 16. Graph-analytic Method of Calculating Displacement in Bending. 
Chapter 17. Non-uniform Beams. 

Part VI. Potential Energy. Statically Indeterminate Beams. 
Chapter 18. Application of the Concept of Potential Energy in Determining Displacements. 
Chapter 19. Statically Indeterminate Beams. 

Part VII. Resistance Under Compound Loading. 
Chapter 20. Unsymmetric Bending. 
Chapter 21. Combined Bending and Tension or Compression.
Chapter 22. Combined Bending and Torsion. 
Chapter 23. General Compound Loading. 
Chapter 24. Curved Bars. 
Chapter 25. Thick-walled and Thin-walled Vessels. 
Chapter 26. Design for Permissible Loads. Design for Limiting State. 

Part VIII Stability of Elements of Structures. 
Chapter 27. Stability of Bars Under Compression. 
Chapter 28. More Complicated Questions of Stability in Elements of Structures. 
Part IX. Dynamic Action of Forces. 
Chapter 29. Effect of Forces of Inertia. Stresses due to Vibrations. 
Chapter 30. Stresses Under Impact Loading. 
Chapter 31. Strength Check of Materials Under Variable Loading.Chapter 32. Fundamentals of Creep Analysis.

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