Intelligent Systems and Tools for Optimal Design in Mechanical Engineering and Their Practical Applications, Second Edition
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Mechanical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2026 | Viewed by 807
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Interests: technical sciences, especially in the discipline of mechanics; development and application of computer methods, especially artificial intelligence methods in technical systems; application of optimization methods mainly in the design of components for means of transport; design of rail vehicles, cars, and aircraft
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Interests: concept and methodology of the optimization of selected mechanical structures; optimization algorithms; artificial immune systems; evolutionary algorithms procedure for simultaneous optimization of shape, topology, and distribution of different materials for the spatial structure
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Mechanical structures, depending on their intended purpose, must satisfy numerous design requirements. As a result, they should meet safety requirements related to their geometry, strength, and deformability. Additionally, mechanical constructions should often be ergonomic, lightweight, cheap to produce, and feasible using available known production methods. Consequently, such structures should be optimized with respect to meeting various criteria. In order to obtain optimal solutions, we use various systems and tools in the field of computational mechanics. We invite you to submit articles on modern methods for optimal design and their applications in mechanical engineering.
Topics included are as follows:
Computational mechanics in solid-, fluid-, and biomechanics to achieve optimal design with the applications involving the following:
- computational intelligence;
- artificial intelligence methods;
- sensitivity and reliability analysis;
- inverse problems and optimization;
- soft computing;
- advanced finite element method, finite volume method, and boundary element method;
- discrete element method;
- meshless and related methods;
- numerical approaches to initial and boundary value problems;
- parallel computing;
- exascale computing;
- multiscale computing;
- other methods applied in computational mechanics.
Dr. Mirosław Szczepanik
Dr. Arkadiusz Poteralski
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- computational mechanics
- solid mechanics
- fluid mechanics
- biomechanics
- optimization
- optimal design
- computational intelligence
- artificial intelligence methods
- sensitivity and reliability analysis
- inverse problems
- soft computing
- finite element method
- finite volume method
- boundary element method
- discrete element method
- meshless and related methods
- parallel computing
- exascale computing
- multiscale computing
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