Robust Truss Topology Design via Semidefinite Programming

1 November 1997

journal article
Published by Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in SIAM Journal on Optimization

Vol. 7 (4) , 991-1016
https://doi.org/10.1137/s1052623495291951

Abstract

We present and motivate a new model of the truss topology design problem, where the rigidity of the resulting truss with respect both to given loading scenarios and small "occasional" loads is optimized. It is shown that the resulting optimization problem is a semidefinite program. We derive and analyze several equivalent reformulations of the problem and present illustrative numerical examples.

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