Parallel evolution strategy for solving structural optimization

Engineering Structures

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 318-324

  Thierauf, Georg ^a   Cai, Jianbo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Parallel evolution strategy; Structural optimization

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; TWO LEVEL PARALLEL EVOLUTION STRATEGY;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031119182     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-0296(96)00076-4     Document Type: Article

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