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http://dx.doi.org/10.3795/KSME-A.2004.28.10.1590

Displacement-Load Method for Semi-Analytical Design Sensitivity Analysis  

Yoo Jung Hun (한양대학교 대학원 기계설계학과)
Kim Heung Seok (한양대학교 대학원 기계설계학과)
Lee Tae Hee (한양대학교 기계공학부)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A / v.28, no.10, 2004 , pp. 1590-1597 More about this Journal
Abstract
Three methods of design sensitivity analysis for structures such as numerical method, analytical method and semi-analytical method have been developed for the last three decades. Although analytical design sensitivity analysis can provide very exact result, it is difficult to implement into practical design problems. Therefore, numerical method such as finite difference method is widely used to simply obtain the design sensitivity in most cases. The numerical differentiation is sufficiently accurate and reliable fur most linear problems. However, it turns out that the numerical differentiation is inefficient and inaccurate in nonlinear design sensitivity analysis because its computational cost depends on the number of design variables and large numerical errors can be included. Thus the semi-analytical method is more suitable for complicated design problems. Moreover, semi-analytical method is easy to be performed in design procedure, which can be coupled with an analysis solver such as commercial finite element package. In this paper, implementation procedure fur the semi-analytical design sensitivity analysis outside of the commercial finite element package is studied and the computational technique is proposed for evaluating the partial differentiation of internal nodal force, so called pseudo-load. Numerical examples coupled with commercial finite element package are shown to verify usefulness of proposed semi-analytical sensitivity analysis procedure and computational technique for pseudo-load.
Keywords
Semi-analytical Design Sensitivity Analysis; Nonlinear Analysis; Commercial Finite Element Package; Displacement Load Method;
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