Advanced solution methods in structural optimization based on evolution strategies

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 12-34

  Papadrakakis, Manolis ^a   Lagaros, Nikolaos D ^a   Thierauf, Georg ^b   Cai, Jianbo ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIMULATED ANNEALING; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; ALGORITHMS; CALCULATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE;

EVOLUTION STRATEGIES; EVOLUTION-BASED SYSTEMS; NATURAL PROCESSES; SELECTION PROCESS; HYBRID TECHNIQUES;

STRATEGIC PLANNING; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 0031651560     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644409810200668     Document Type: Article

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