DELIGHT.STRUCT: A computer-aided design environment for structural engineering
Abstract
An expandable software system is described for optimization-based, interactive computer-aided design of structures. This system can be used for the design of statically and/or dynamically loaded structures which exhibit linear or nonlinear response. The software is the union of: (1) an interactive base code for the management of the computer-aided design process named DELIGHT, (2) a dynamic nonlinear general-purpose structural analysis package named ANSR, (3) a library of optimization algorithms specialized for the type of mathematical programming problems characteristic of structural design, and (4) specialized software for the design of seismic-resistant planar steel frames. Flexibility has been emphasized in the development of this system so that a wide range of structural problems can be considered. The user describes his problem to the system by supplying a minimal amount of software or by selecting software from expandable libraries.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- December 1981
- Bibcode:
- 1981STIN...8310278B
- Keywords:
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- Computer Design;
- Computer Programs;
- Dynamic Structural Analysis;
- Frames;
- Optimization;
- Steel Structures;
- Algorithms;
- Loads (Forces);
- Mathematical Models;
- Nonlinear Programming;
- Seismic Energy;
- Engineering (General)