Improving structural design by genetic search

Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 5-11

  Jenkins, W M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY CODES; COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

DECIMAL CODED VALUES; GENETIC SEARCH;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0031701745     PISSN: 10939687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0885-9507.00080     Document Type: Article

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