TY - GEN A1 - Arnautu, Viorel A1 - Sprekels, Jürgen A1 - Tiba, Dan T1 - Optimization problems for curved mechanical structures N2 - We study the optimization of three dimensional curved rods and of shells under minimal regularity assumptions for the geometry. The results that we establish concern the existence of optimal shapes and the sensitivity analysis. We also compute several numerical examples for the curved rods. The models that we use have been investigated in our previous work [11], [16] and a complete study of the Kirchhoff-Love arches and their optimization has been performed in [10]. Y1 - 2004 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-matheon/frontdoor/index/index/docId/58 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0296-matheon-581 ER -