FACULTY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING - 10/2/2010

UITM S.ALAM, SEM. J AN-MAY2010

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KJM 643 DESIGN OPTIMIZATION TEST-1 (75 minutes)

PART-1

1. (i) Describe a design that is optimum.
(ii) What is an important criteria in deciding which parameters to be the design variables?
(iii) Give an example of a fluid related system, and what your choice of design variable
(name one) will be.
(iv) Give one example of design constraint in the design of heat exchanger.
(20%)

2. A gas container made of steel with internal pressure p of 22 N/mm
2
is designed to have the
smallest volume of sheet metal. The container is in the shape of sphere and shall have
minimum interior volume of 1.5E10 mm
3
. The container internal diameter is d. The
thickness of the container is t. The ratio of thickness to diameter shall be less than 1%, and
the minimum thickness is 5 mm. The maximum sphere diameter d is 4000 mm.
The container is not allowed to yield plastically under internal pressure. Material of the
container is steel with yield strength of 250 N/mm
2
. From pressure vessel theory, the stress
of the spherical vessel due to internal pressure is
t
pd
4
=
Formulate the design problem and write its optimization statement.
Note: sphere surface area is ( )
2
2
4
d
and sphere volume is ( )
3
2 3
4 d
.
(30%)


PART-2

3. Given an unconstrained function of two design variables,
f(x
1
,x
2
) =4x
1
2
+4x
2
2
+4x
1
x
2
- 16x
1
- 16x
2
Find the minimum of the function and its corresponding design-variable values. (30%)

4. Given an unconstrained function of one design variable,
f() =1.5
3
1.25
2
+0.25 +1
Find the minimum of the function and its corresponding design variable value. (20%)