This book serves as a complementary resource to the courses "Advanced structural optimization" and "Structural optimization in automotive engineering" taught by the author at the University of Siegen, North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany since 2001.
1. Optimization and inverse solutions for plane contacts.- 2. Optimization for axisymmetric contacts, charged and conducting disks.- 3. Optimization of needle-shaped stiffeners.- 4. Optimization for periodic arrays of needle-shaped stiffeners.- 5. Optimization of compressed rods with Sturm boundary conditions.- 6. Optimization of axially compressed rods with mixed boundary conditions.