Improvements of simple genetic algorithm in structural design

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1323-1334

  Chen, Ting Yu ^a   Chen, Chung Jei ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithm; Improvements; Structures

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TOPOLOGY;

SIMPLE GENETIC ALGORITHM (SGA);

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0031125927     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19970415)40:7<1323::AID-NME117>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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