Load and resistance convex models for optimum design

Structural Optimization

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 259-268

  Ganzerli, S ^a   Pantelides, C P ^a  

^a University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL LOADS; TRUSSES;

CONVEX MODELS; MECHANICAL UNCERTAINTIES;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 0032626019     PISSN: 09344373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01207002     Document Type: Article

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