ADS swMATH ID: 13387 Software Authors: G. N. Vanderplaats Description: A general-purpose optimization program for engineering design. A new general-purpose optimization program for engineering design is described. ADS (automated design synthesis) is a FORTRAN program for nonlinear constrained (or unconstrained) function minimization. The optimization process is segmented into three levels: strategy, optimizer, and one-dimensional search. At each level, several options are available so that a total of nearly 100 possible combinations can be treated. An example of available combinations is the augmented Lagrange multiplier method, using the BFGS variable metric unconstrained minimization together with polynomial interpolation for the one-dimensional search. Scaling is included to improve the numerical conditioning. The program is demonstrated with several engineering design examples. Homepage: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a213595.pdf Related Software: Excel; STAGS; VICONOPT; CONMIN; PANDA; ABAQUS Cited in: 4 Publications Standard Articles 1 Publication describing the Software, including 1 Publication in zbMATH Year A general-purpose optimization program for engineering design. Zbl 0589.73085Vanderplaats, Garret N.; Sugimoto, Hiroyuki 1986 all top 5 Cited by 7 Authors 1 Bushnell, David H. 1 Powell, David J. 1 Saouma, Victor E. 1 Sikiotis, Efthimios S. 1 Sugimoto, Hiroyuki 1 Tong, Siu-Ming 1 Vanderplaats, Garret N. Cited in 2 Serials 2 Computers and Structures 1 Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering Cited in 3 Fields 3 Mechanics of deformable solids (74-XX) 1 Numerical analysis (65-XX) 1 Computer science (68-XX) Citations by Year