{"id":305741,"date":"2023-09-10T08:27:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T08:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/equality-constraint-in-optimization\/"},"modified":"2023-09-10T08:27:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T08:27:41","slug":"equality-constraint-in-optimization","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/equality-constraint-in-optimization\/","title":{"rendered":"equality constraint in optimization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #252525\">Hello everyone,<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #252525\">I am doing an optimization on ANSYS Workbench using direct optimization.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #252525\">I suppose to optimize a design moudular configuration of a square patern of (n) patches attached to a plate of (l) length, where<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #252525\">(s) is the distance between the start of the plate and the first patch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #252525\">(lp) is the patch length.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #252525\">(p) is the pitch between patches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #252525\">(e) is the distance between the last patch and the end of the plate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #252525\">I need to set an equality constraint or equality relationship between the shown parameters, such that<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #252525\">l = s+ lp + n*p + e&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #252525\">given that (l) is a constant while (s,lp,n,p,e) are optimization parameters<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #252525\">Could anyone help me with that problem?<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #252525\">Regarads<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-305741","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-constraint","topic-tag-design-optimization","topic-tag-direct-optimization"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["51194","240"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.206.193.154"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["1682"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["305741"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["240","51194"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["24"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["347172"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["347172"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2024-01-29 23:02:07"]},"test":"md_abdelrhimhotmail-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/305741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/305741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}