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The International Society for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization is a learned society in the field of multidisciplinary design optimization that was founded in October 1991. It has more than 1000 members in 45 countries. [1] The current president is Wei Chen (Northwestern University). [2] The society is an affiliated organization of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM). [3]
The objectives are: [1]
- to stimulate and promote research into all aspects of the optimal design of structures and related topics, including engineering systems consisting partially of structures and/or fluids;
- to encourage practical applications of optimization methods and the corresponding software development in all branches of technology;
- to foster the interchange of ideas amongst various fields contributing to structural and multidisciplinary optimization;
- to support the role of optimization in multidisciplinary design;
- to provide a framework for the organization of meetings and other means for the dissemination of knowledge on structural optimization; and
- to promote teaching of structural optimization in tertiary institutions.
The society works towards these objectives by organizing a biennial "World Congress of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization" and publishing an official journal, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization , in collaboration with Springer Science+Business Media. [4]
- 1991-1995: George Rozvany (Founder President) [5]
- 1995-1999: Raphael Haftka
- 1999-2003: Niels Olhoff [6]
- 2003-2007: Martin P. Bendsøe [7]
- 2007-2011: KK Choi [8]
- 2011-2015: Ole Sigmund [9]
- 2015-2019: Cheng Gengdong
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