EXAMPLE 1, Slide 7: Design margins versus design iterations for optimization of the flat rectangular plate

Fig. 5 from the 1990 GENOPT paper. Shown here is the history of the design margins versus design iterations during a single execution of the GENOPT processor, OPTIMIZE.

The quantities in the legend are defined as follows:

VAR(2) = LENGTH, VAR(3) = WIDTH (see Table 8 of the 1990 GENOPT paper); the remaining variables (MAXSTR, STRESS, FSTRESS, BUCKLE, MINBUC. FBUCKL, etc.) are defined in Table 2 of the 1990 GENOPT paper (shown three slides ago). F.S. = "factor of safety".

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