On equivalence between stress criterion and stiffness criterion in evolutionary structural optimization

Structural Optimization

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 67-73

  Li, Q ^a   Steven, G P ^a   Xie, Y M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; STIFFNESS; STRESS ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGY;

EVOLUTIONARY STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; STIFFNESS MAXIMIZATION; STIFFNESS SENSITIVITY CRITERION; VON MISES STRESS CRITERION;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033169390     PISSN: 09344373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01210693     Document Type: Article

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