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Design, fabrication and economy of welded structures

Article  in  Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization · January 2010

DOI: 10.1007/s00158-008-0356-y

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DOI 10.1007/s00158-008-0356-y

BOOK REVIEW

Design, fabrication and economy of welded structures

International conference proceedings 2008, Miskolc, Hungary, 24–26 April
Editors: Károly Jármai · József Farkas

Luis M. C. Simoes

Received: 18 December 2008 / Accepted: 26 December 2008 / Published online: 30 January 2009
© Springer-Verlag 2009

structural optimization, fatigue design, frames, plated

This Proceedings published by Horwood Publishers
(Chichester, UK) contains 69 papers arranged in 13
sections according to the following thematic groups:
structures, residual welding stresses and distortions,
static stresses in welded connections, hollow sections,
welding technology, applications, applied mechanics.
Authors are experts from 20 countries, ensuring a
wide spectrum and importance of the themes covered.
The International Institute of Welding (IIW) and
many other sponsors helped organizers to collect these
valuable studies, which provide an important reference
for civil and mechanical engineers, architects, design-
ers and fabricators, as well as managers in a range
of industries including building, transport, materials
handling, shipbuilding, aircraft, chemical and offshore
engineering.
Most of the work relate to structural optimization,
in which the structural safety and fitness for production
are guaranteed by fulfilling the design and fabrication
constraints and the economy is achieved by minimiza-
tion of a cost function. Welding technology and stresses
arising from welded connections represent a significant
part of the remaining papers. The book includes studies
on structural analysis and design concerning fracture,
instability, large deformations, fatigue, earthquake and
fire loading.
Papers can help the work of engineers, designers,
producers, managers and researchers in designing and
producing competitive welded structures.

L. M. C. Simoes (B)
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Coimbra,
Coimbra, Portugal
e-mail: lcsimoes@dec.uc.pt

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