TY - CHAP U1 - Buchbeitrag A1 - Gekeler, Simon A1 - Steinbuch, Rolf ED - Steinbuch, Rolf T1 - Future tasks in optimization and simulation T2 - Bionic optimization in structural design : stochastically based methods to improve the performance of parts and assemblies N2 - Broad acceptance of finite-element-based analysis of structural problems and the increased availability of CAD-systems for structural tasks, which help to generate meshes of non-trivial geometries, have been setting a standard for the evaluation of designs in mechanical engineering in the last few decades. The development of automated or semi-automated optimizers, integrated into the Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE)-packages or working as outer loop machines, requiring the solver to do the analysis of the specific designs, has been accepted by most advanced users of the simulation community as well. The availability and inexpensive processing power of computers is increasing without any limitations foreseen in the coming years. There is little doubt that virtual product development will continue using the tools that have proved to be so successful and so easy to handle. Y1 - 2016 SN - 978-3-662-46596-7 SB - 978-3-662-46596-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46596-7_7 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46596-7_7 SP - 147 EP - 153 S1 - 7 PB - Springer CY - Berlin, Heidelberg ER -