Optimum Design of Mechanical Components
- Introduction to design optimization
- Optimum design problem formulation
- Graphical solution method and basic optimization concepts
- Optimum design concepts and optimality conditions in unconstrained and constrained problems
- Line search methods
- Unconstrained optimum design for nonlinear problems: gradient based methods
- Unconstrained optimum design for nonlinear problems: quasi-Newton methods
- Unconstrained optimum design for nonlinear problems: direct search methods
- Constrained optimum design for nonlinear problems
- An Introduction to Genetic Algorithm