This extended and revised second edition elaborates on techniques for the numerical analysis of beams, long strips, circular plates, and circular-cylindrical tanks resting on elastic foundations and on unyielding or elastic supports. Emphasis is placed on the simplicity of analysis, while maintaining the accuracy of results, and a large number of examples are included as illustration. Easy-to-use, fully-revised software is included which runs smoothly under current Windows operating systems. The applicability of the software is extended to analysis of laterally-loaded piles and bending analysis of retaining walls. A bonus suite of complementary software containing programmes for elastic-plastic soil-structure interaction analyses of beams or strips, laterally-loaded piles or sheet-piles, and long retaining walls is also included. This package of numerical techniques and software provides a powerful tool which renders design analysis of structures easy and time-efficient. Practising engineers will find this title invaluable, while postgraduate students and researchers working in soil-structure interaction will also find the book-software package very useful.

"The book and software are of great use to practising engineers engaged in design of beams, strips, circular plates, circular-cylindrical tanks and silos. Postgraduate students and researchers working in the soil-structure interaction area should also find the book-software package of great value."--BOOK JACKET.

This book presents comprehensive outlines of elastic numerical analyses of beams, axisymetric plates, and circular-cylindrical tanks resting on elastic foundations and/or unyielding supports. The included software is based on the numerical techniques discussed in the book and constitutes a powerful tool, making the design analysis of the related structures very easy. Together, the book and software are of great practical use to engineers working in the design of beams, strips, circular plates, cylindrical tanks and silos, and also to postgraduate students and researchers with interest in this area of soil-structure interaction. Furthermore, the book will be a valuable resource in engineering education involving modern computer-based analysis techniques. Elastic foundations are modelled either as Winkler springs or elastic half-space continua (isotropic and cross-anisotropic). Applied solutions techniques incorporate a variant of the direct stiffness method and an energy-based finite difference approach.

This textbook first published in 1992 now appearing in its third edition retains the best features from the earlier editions and adds significantly to the contents, which include developments in the 1990s.

This book covers different aspects of real-world applications of optimization algorithms. It provides insights from the Sixth International Conference on Harmony Search, Soft Computing and Applications held at Istanbul University, Turkey, in July 2020. Harmony Search (HS) is one of the most popular metaheuristic algorithms, developed in 2001 by Prof. Joong Hoon Kim and Prof. Zong Woo Geem, that mimics the improvisation process of jazz musicians to seek the best harmony. The book consists of research articles on novel and newly proposed optimization algorithms; the theoretical study of nature-inspired optimization algorithms; numerically established results of nature-inspired optimization algorithms; and real-world applications of optimization algorithms and synthetic benchmarking of optimization algorithms.

- Introduces a general approach to the method of integral transforms based on the spectral theory of the linear differential operators. - Presents a new, versatile foundation model with a number of advantages over the ground-based models currently used in practical calculations. - Provides new transforms which will aid in solving various problems relevant to bars, beams, plates, and shells in particular for the structures on elastic foundation. - Examines the methods of solving boundary-value problems typical for structural mechanics and related fields.