Continuité et différentiabilité d'éléments propres: application à l'optimisation de structures. (Continuity and differentiability of eigen-elements: Application to the optimization of structures) (Q1813568): Difference between revisions

The sensitivity analysis of static structural eigenvalue response with respect to design variation is presented in this important paper. The effect of design variation on buckling of a beam is considered. The buckling load of a structure (computed by an eigenvalue problem, the eigenvalue of the smallest absolute value) is described by a linear, elliptic eigenvalue problem. In optimizing structures with a constraint on the buckling load, repeated eigenvalues are likely to occur. The main results are: The work brings some new ideas in the proof of continuity and differentiability results of eigen-elements with respect to design variables (by using the variational characterization of eigenvalues). Finally the authors illustrate these results by a classical problem: buckling of a beam.