to Optimization of Structures With 66 Illustrations Springer-Verlag New York Berlin Heidelberg London Paris Tokyo Hong Kong N.V. Banichuk Institute for Problems in Mechanics USSR Academy of ScienCes 117526 Moscow Soviet Union Translator Vadim Komkov Mathematics and Computer Science Department Air Force Institute of Technology Wright Patterson Air Force Base, OH 45433 USA Original Russian edition Vvedenie v Optimizatsiyu Konstruktsiy published (c) 1986 by Nauka Moscow. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Banichuk, Nikolai Vladimirovich. Vvedenie v optimizatsiiii konstruktsii....

This volume contains the proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Dynamical Problems for Rigid-elastic Systems and Structures held in Moscow, USSR in May 1990. This symposium brought together scientists working in the fields of multibody system dynamics and finite element systems with special emphasis to modeling, simulation, optimization and control. The scientific lectures were devoted to the following topics: - Modeling and optimization; - Dynamics of systems with elastic constraints; - Vibrations; - Multibody systems. The papers presented indicate the importance of these topics with respect...