Andy Tyas

Application of Large-scale Layout Optimization Techniques in Structural Engineering Practice (2005)

World Congresses Of, Matthew Gilbert, Wael Darwich, Andy Tyas, Paul Shepherd

A number of promising techniques which allow treatment of very large-scale plastic truss layout optimization problems incorporating multiple load cases, self weight and practical nodal stability...

Practical Plastic Layout Optimization of Trusses Incorporating Stability Considerations, accepted for publication in Computers and Structures (2005)

Andy Tyas, Matthew Gilbert, Thomas Pritchard

Frequently, the topologies generated using conventional discrete structural layout optimization methods may be shown to be in unstable equilibrium with the specified applied loading. Instability may...