Introduction of fixed grid in evolutionary structural optimisation

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 427-439

  Kim, H ^b   Garcia, M J ^b   Querin, O M ^b   Steven, G P ^b   Xie, Y M ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Finite clement analysis; Grids; Structural optimization; Topology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000865933     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644400010334838     Document Type: Article

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