NATO Science Series E

5 Nonconservative Loading and Other Problems.- Structural Optimization Under Nonconservative Loading.- A Method of Direct Solution to Linear Inverse Problems.- Minimum-Weight Design of a Rotating Cantilever Beam With Specified Flapping- Frequency.- Interaction Between High-Speed Vehicles and Flexible Guideways.- Optimal Plastic Design of Beams for Workhardening Adaptation.- Optimization of Shells Under Combined Loadings Via the Concept of Uniform Stability.- Process Description Parameter Change in Dimensional Base Optimization.- Quantitative Stability Analysis and Load Domains.- 6 Shape Optimal Design.- Optimality Conditions and Analytical Methods of Shape Optimization.- Problems of Shape Optimal Design.- Numerical Methods of Shape Optimal Design.- The Material Derivative (or Speed) Method for Shape Optimization.- Domain Variational Formulation for Free Boundary Problems.- Implementation of Some Methods of Shape Optimal Design.- Dependence of Eigenvalues with Respect to Shape.- Design of a Mass-Optimized Thermal Diffuser.- A gradient Projection Method for Optimizing Shape of Elastic Bodies.- Existence of Optimal Geometries for a Model Problem of Antiplane Strain.- Application of Mathematical Models to Improve the Mechanical Behavior of a Large Superconducting Toroidal Field Coil Under Magnetic Body Forces.- 7 Design Sensitivity Analysis.- Design Sensitivity Analysis of Static Response Variations.- Design Sensitivity Analysis of Eigenvalue Variations.- Design Sensitivity Analysis of Shape Variation.- Singular Dependence of Repeated Eigenvalues.- Semi Derivatives of Repeated Eigenvalues.- Shape Design Sensitivity Methods for Structural Mechanics.- Computing Eigenvector Derivatives with Generalized Inverses.- Design Sensitivity Analysis for Distributed Parameter Structural Systems Governed by Double Eigenvalue Problems.- Inverse Perturbation Methods for Vibration Analysis.- Optimal Design for Elastic Bodies in Contact.- Sensitivity Analysis for a Class of Variational Inequalities.