Reliable structural optimization with error estimation, adaptivity and robust sensitivity analysis

Computers and Structures

Volumn 64, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 31-63

  Sienz, J ^a   Hinton, E ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ERROR ANALYSIS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

ROBUST SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 0031188395     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7949(96)00170-8     Document Type: Article

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