Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore 560 012, India Optimization hinders evolution! ME256
Variational Methods and Structural Optimization
Jan.-May., 2015
Instructor:
G. K.
Ananthasuresh
, Room 106, ME Building,
suresh at
mecheng.iisc.ernet.in
Lectures: Tu, Th: 08:30 AM - 10:00 AM;
Venue: ME MMCR (Multimedia Classroom)
Homework #7
Assigned: Mar. 12th, 2015
Due: Mar. 19th, 2015
Points: 60 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".
40 points
Modify the Matlab code given for bar-optimization to solving beam-optimization problems. Stiffest-lightest is fine but you may also explore other
objectives for extra credit.
You can download the beam-fem file here .
20 points
Submit one-page project proposal. It should include a precide mathematical statement of the problem and adequate verbal description (with
figure, if necessary) of the background to the problem.
