Example 11, Slide 26: The WEIGHT of “global” optimum designs versus number of major segments over WIDTH/2=50 inches

This is Fig. 43 from the 2014 GENOPT paper.
Optimized weights versus the number of major segments (NSEG) spanning WIDTH/2 = 50 inches for uniform and complex corrugated panels with alternating “convex up” and “convex down” configurations. The minimum optimized weight for “smoothed” complex corrugated panels, 92.5 lb at NSEG = 7, is about 13 per cent lower than the minimum optimized weight for uniform corrugated panels: 106.5 lb at NSEG = 10. Indications (described in Appendix 5) are that the optimized designs corresponding to NSEG = 13 and NSEG = 16 are not global optimum designs. See Fig. A18 and the relevant text in Appendix 5 for an explanation.

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