Structural optimization by variational methods

This chapter contains notes for lectures delivered as part of the Advanced Study Institute “Computer Aided Optimal Design: Structural and Mechanical Systems” organized in Troia, Portugal, 30 June – 11 July 1986, by the Center of Mechanics and Materials of the University of Lisbon. The author gratefully acknowledges Professor Carlos Mota Soares and his collagues for a most successful arrangement of the meeting and the other lecturers for several extremely interesting contributions.

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