Tecniche di ottimizzazione applicate alla progettazione di opere nel campo dell'ingegneria civile ed ambientale

The design process involved in the definition of the properties of a civil work is efficient when the design describes a civil work that maximizes the performances of the civil work and minimizes the different costs related to its construction (economic costs, environmental costs) . In this paper a methodology that helps the committee and the designers in the task of choosing the design solution that minimize the costs and the time related to the construction of the civil work is described. The methodology proposed is based on a statistical approach to cope with the uncertainty on the data that represent the base for the design process and evaluates the risks related to the construction of the civil work.