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Multicriteria Design Optimization

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The optimization of civil engineering structures usually involves a number of requirements that should be met at the same time in order to obtain a useful design. In the case of single criteria optimization, one of the requirements is selected as the criterion of optimization while the remaining ones are met by including them into the constraints of optimization. However, while using this approach it is necessary to determine a priori the bounds which these requirements should fulfill a priori. Multicriteria (vector) optimization enables the designer to consider effectively all the different, mutually conflicting requirements inherent in the design problem.

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  1. Research Laboratory for Structural Optimization at the Institute of Mechanics and Control Engineering, University of Siegen, D-5900, Siegen, Germany

    Hans Eschenauer

  2. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, P.O. Box 527, SF-33101, Tampere, Finland

    Juhani Koski

  3. Institute of Machine Technology, Technical University of Cracow, PL-31-155, Cracow, Poland

    Andrzej Osyczka

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Jendo, S., Gero, J.S., Rosenman, M.A. (1990). Civil and Architectural Engineering. In: Eschenauer, H., Koski, J., Osyczka, A. (eds) Multicriteria Design Optimization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48697-5_9

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