Typical Optimization Tasks for Static Analysis

This section deals with the typical optimization tasks for the static, nonlinear static and temperature static analysis types. Only some very common tasks are described here; for complex optimization tasks, it is useful and necessary to combine, e.g., the static compliance as the objective with the displacement constraints and modal frequency constraints resulting from a modal analysis.


In this section:

Minimizing Compliance Under Volume Constraint
Minimizing Displacement / Rotation under Volume Constraint
Defining Constraint for Difference between two Displacements
Minimizing a Reaction or Internal Force
Minimizing the Volume under Displacement Constraint
Minimizing the Maximum Stress with Volume Constraint
Minimizing the Material Volume with Stress Constraint