Design of minimal weight structures for given reliability and cost.
ResearchPublished 1961
An improved computational procedure applied to a technique recently outlined by Hilton and Feigen for designing minimal-weight mechanical structures having a given degree of reliability. The considerations of Hilton and Feigen are generalized to include the costs of materials.
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