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Optimal Shape Design in Contact Problems
1989
From the mathematical point of view, optimal shape design (or optimum design, optimization of the domain, structural optimization) is a branch of the calculus of variations and especially of optimal control where study is devoted to the problem of finding the optimal shape for an object. In an optimal shape design process the objective is to optimize certain criteria involving the solution of a partial differential equation with respect to its domain of definition, [2, 3, 5].