This volume presents innovative formulations and applied procedures for sensitivity analysis and structural design optimization. Coverage ranges from recent developments to the use of evolutionary algorithms and meta-models to solve engineering problems.

This volume presents recent research work focused in the development of adequate theoretical and numerical formulations to describe the behavior of advanced engineering materials. Particular emphasis is devoted to applications in the fields of biological tissues, phase changing and porous materials, polymers and to micro/nano scale modeling. Sensitivity analysis, gradient and non-gradient based optimization procedures are involved in many of the chapters, aiming at the solution of constitutive inverse problems and parameter identification. All these relevant topics are exposed by experienced...

This volume presents innovative formulations and applied procedures for sensitivity analysis and structural design optimization. Coverage ranges from recent developments to the use of evolutionary algorithms and meta-models to solve engineering problems.