Evolutionary structural optimization for dynamic problems

Computers and Structures

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1067-1073

  Xie, Y M ^a   Steven, G P ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; FREQUENCY CONSTRAINTS; SENSITIVITY NUMBER;

CALCULATIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS);

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030105479     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0045-7949(95)00235-9     Document Type: Article

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