This chapter introduces the reader to various problems that are typical of the field of optimization. It begins with a discussion of structural optimization described formally as a mathematical programming problem. This is followed by a series of typical optimization problems and an introduction to some of the tools available to deal with them including Lagrange multipliers and linear programming.
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Spillers, W.R., MacBain, K.M. (2009). Introduction. In: Structural Optimization. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-95865-1_1
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