Multicriteria fuzzy optimization of structural systems

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 195-214

  Ohkubo, Sadaji ^a   Dissanayake, P B R ^b  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Aesthetics of structural system; Measure membership functions; Multicriteria fuzzy optimization; Suboptimization; Total expected cost after an earthquake

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; FUZZY SETS; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION;

MULTICRITERIA FUZZY OPTIMIZATION;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032640672     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19990520)45:2<195::AID-NME588>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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