This chapter discusses some problems of the design of optimal beams and plates that depend largely on the work of G. I. N. Rozvany (1976). He makes particularly clever use of Lagrange multipliers as discontinuous functions.
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Spillers, W.R., MacBain, K.M. (2009). Beams and Plates: The Work of Rozvany. In: Structural Optimization. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-95865-1_6
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