Optimal design of a two-stage mounting isolation system by the maximum entropy approach

In this paper, the optimization of the parameters for two-stage mounting isolation system is studied. The maximum entropy approach is applied to deal with the non-differentiable optimization problems. Results of numerical examples confirm the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed method, which is also suitable for the optimization of other kind of isolation system, such as Ruzicka isolation system (Ding wen-jing 1988 Theory on Vibration Reduction, Tsinghua University Publishing House, Ruzicka 1967 Journal of Engineering and Industries ASME 89), etc. (C) 2001 Academic Press.