Can fmincon (optimization tool) be used over one variable.?

I am taking uniform thickness of a singly curved cylindrical Shell as a design variable for optimization with Static(Vertical deflection) and dynamic(frequency) as Constraints.

Answer 1

[Alan Weiss]

Yes.

However, I am not sure that this is the answer you wanted. Feel free to ask again with more detail. Meanwhile, you might be able to answer some of your own questions by looking at examples in the documentation.

Alan Weiss

MATLAB mathematical toolbox documentation

[Deviprakash Upadhyaya]

Thank you Alan.Yes if i have any doubt regarding constrained optimization will ask you with more details.

[Deviprakash Upadhyaya]

Alan Weiss, it will help me a lot if you can give a example for single variable constrained optimization using fmincon.

[Alan Weiss]

Usually a single-variable problem falls in the domain of fminbnd. But if you really want to use fmincon:

 lb = 5;
 ub = 15;
 x0 = 10;
 [x,fval] = fmincon(@sin,x0,[],[],[],[],lb,ub)

Alan Weiss

MATLAB mathematical toolbox documentation

[Deviprakash Upadhyaya]

Thank you Alan.