Crash worthiness design optimization using multipoint sequential linear programming

被引:38
作者
Etman, LFP
Adriaens, JMTA
vanSlagmaat, MTP
Schoofs, AJG
机构
[1] Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven
[2] TNO Road-Vehicles Research Institute, Delft
[3] Department of Mathematics, Delft University of Technology, Delft
来源
STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION | 1996年 / 12卷 / 04期
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D O I
10.1007/BF01197360
中图分类号
TP39 [计算机的应用];
学科分类号
081203 ; 0835 ;
摘要
A design optimization tool has been developed for the crash victim simulation software MADYMO. The crash worthiness optimization problem is characterized by a noisy behaviour of objective function and constraints. Additionally, objective function and constraint values follow from a computationally expensive numerical analysis. Sequential approximate optimization is used to deal with both the noisy functional behaviour and the high computational costs. By means of multipoint approximations, a sequence of linear programming problems is generated that can be easily solved. The optimization approach is illustrated for an analytical test problem and an industrial crash worthiness design problem.
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页码:222 / 228
页数:7
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