Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India
Optimization hinders evolution!
ME256 Variational methods and structural optimization Jan.-May, 2011
Instructor: G. K. Ananthasuresh, Room 106, ME Building, suresh at mecheng.iisc.ernet.in
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Homework #6
Assigned: Mar. 24th, 2011
Due: Mar. 31st, 2011
Points: 50
Additional points for work that is beyond instructor's expectation!
Look up Homework #1 of 2010 offering of this course and the solution posted there to know what is meant by "beyond instructor's expectation".

  1. 50 points
    Write a general purpose bar-optimization program in Matlab using the files given below.
    Bar-FEA and related files
    Beam-FEA and optimization with related files