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Introduction to Optimum Design

By (author) Jasbir Singh Arora

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**2025 Textbook and Academic Authors Association (TAA) McGuffey Longevity Award Winner** Introduction to Optimum Design, Fifth Edition is the most widely used textbook in engineering optimization and optimum design courses. It is intended for use in a first course on engineering design and optimization at the undergraduate or graduate level within engineering departments of all disciplines, but primarily within mechanical, aerospace and civil engineering. The basic approach of the text presents an organized approach to engineering design optimization in a rigorous yet simplified manner, illustrating various concepts and procedures with simple examples and demonstrating their applicability to engineering design problems. Formulation of a design problem as an optimization problem is emphasized and illustrated throughout the text. Excel and MATLAB are featured as learning and teaching aids. This new edition has been enhanced with new or expanded content in such areas as reliability‐based optimization, metamodeling, design of experiments, robust design, nature-inspired metaheuristic search methods, and combinatorial optimizaton.

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Publisher | Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Published date | 4 Apr 2024
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 1120
Dimensions | 235 x 191 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 1650g
ISBN | 978-0-1281-8320-5
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BISAC | technology / engineering / mechanical


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