Evolutionary natural frequency optimization of two-dimensional structures with additional non-structural lumped masses

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 14, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 233-251

  Zhao, Chongbin ^a   Steven, G P ^b   Xie, Y M ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL LOADS; TOPOLOGY; LOADS (FORCES); OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL);

HOMOGENIZATION METHOD; NON-STRUCTURAL LUMPED MASSES; STATIC LOADING; STRUCTURAL CONFIGURATION; NATURAL FREQUENCY OPTIMIZATION;

MATERIALS HANDLING; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS);

EID: 0030680755     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644409710166208     Document Type: Article

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