Structural shape optimization using evolution strategies

Engineering Optimization

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 515-540

  Papadrakakis, Manolis ^a   Tsompanakis, Yiannis ^a   Lagaros, Nikos D ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING;

EVOLUTION STRATEGY ALGORITHMS; STRUCTURAL SHAPE OPTIMIZATION;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032666604     PISSN: 0305215X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03052159908941385     Document Type: Article

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