New developments in structural optimization using adaptive mesh refinement and multipoint approximations

Engineering Optimization

Volumn 29, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 217-234

  Van Keulen, Fred ^a   Toropov, Vassili V ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive mesh refinement; Multipoint approximations; Shape optimization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT (AMR); MULTIPOINT APPROXIMATION METHOD (MAM); SHAPE OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 0031371695     PISSN: 0305215X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03052159708940994     Document Type: Article

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