Introduction to Optimization of Structures (Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990)

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. English] Introduction to optimization of structuresfN.V.

Banichuk. p. cm. Translation of: Vvedenie v optimizaiSiiu konstrukiSii.

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