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<a name = "hj-top"> </a><table class = "table1" id = "table11"><tr><td><table class = "DocHeader"><tr><td class = "DocHeader1" colspan = "2"><h1>Terms for Optimization</h1></td></tr><tr><td class = "DocHeader4" colspan = "2"/></tr><tr><td class = "DocHeader3" colspan = "2"><table class = "DocThemeIntro" id = "table12"><tr><td class = "Intro1"><p class = "header"><p class = "abstract">
<span class = "shortdesc">This chapter deals with typical optimization definitions and explains topics regarding the optimization targets, 
           the optimization restrictions and how to define these.</span>

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</p><hr class = "header"/></td></tr><tr><td class = "Intro2"><span class = "run-in">In this section:</span><br/><ul class = "ulthemes"><li><a title = "To optimize something you need to know what to optimize. Do you want to minimize stresses? Or maximize all eigenvalues?" href = "tso-c-usr-terms-ovw.htm">Overview of Optimization Terms</a></li><li><a title = "Most design responses are only available for certain analysis types. Others are independent of the analysis type because they are directly linked to the geometry of the FE-model. Each design response represents one scalar value which can be extracted from the model information (like the volume) or from the FE-results." href = "tso-m-usr-terms-dresps-sb.htm">Design Responses</a></li><li><a title = "The objective function defines the values to be maximized or minimized during optimization. This function might depend on analysis results, geometric values or combinations of those." href = "tso-m-usr-terms-objfunc-sb.htm">Objective Function</a></li><li><a title = "Normally, optimization tasks have some restrictions. These restrictions limit the values of the design responses or linear combinations of the design responses. If the constraint is not fulfilled the optimization result is not feasible." href = "tso-m-usr-terms-constraint-sb.htm">Constraints</a></li><li><a title = "For getting the scalar value of a design response or a variable, it is necessary to combine values derived from model properties or analysis results. This could be done getting the maximum or minimum value within a number of load cases or a number of group entities or creating response combinations like relative values, differences or mean values." href = "tso-m-usr-terms-combTerms-sb.htm">Combined Terms</a></li><li><a title = "All defined design responses are logged to the log file TOSCA.OUT." href = "tso-c-usr-terms-LoggMonitorTerms.htm">Logging and Monitoring</a></li></ul></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>



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