A Brief Overview of Global-local Analysis in Structural Design Problems

Abstract

Structural design problems considering strength, buckling, and damage could be computationally demanding. In order to overcome the computational challenge, the global-local approach has been developed. In this method, first, an approximate analysis of the entire structure is performed. Following this, a smaller area of interest in the structure is selected, and a detailed analysis is performed considering boundary conditions from the global analysis. This article provides a brief overview of such global-local techniques used by different researchers for structural design