The Modified Fully Utilized Design Method

The modified fully utilized design (MFUD) method is undergoing development for use by engineers who favor traditional methods of designing structures over methods based on advanced calculus and nonlinear mathematical programming techniques. Thus far, the MFUD has been developed for trusses, with cross-sectional areas of truss members as design variables. Like nonlinear optimization methods, the MFUD method is iterative, but in comparison with those methods, the MFUD method involves less and simpler computation.