Question

Your company is moving toward final agreement on a contract in Pakistan to sell farm equipment. As the contract is prepared, officials ask that a large amount be included to enable the government to update its agriculture research. The extra amount is to be paid in cash to the three officials you have worked with. Should your company pay?

Answer 1

It consists of adopting a multi objective approach where the global buckling is introduced as an additional constraint of the optimization process and the number of truss elements to convert into beams (nB) is introduced as a further objective function to minimize together with the weight.