Self-designing structures: A practical approach

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 35-48

  Christie, W C ^a   Bettess, P ^b   Bull, J W ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRESS ANALYSIS; THEOREM PROVING; AIR FILTERS; APPLICATIONS; GEOMETRY; INDUSTRY; STRESSES;

ANIMAL BONES; BONE STRUCTURES; DESIGN TOOLS; SELF-DESIGNING STRUCTURES;

BONE; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 0031674737     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644409810200677     Document Type: Article

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