Computer-aided design of optimal structures with uncertainty

Computers and Structures

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 293-307

  Pantelides, C P ^a   Booth, Berkeley C ^a  

^a University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

CONVEX MODEL;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033883288     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7949(99)00047-4     Document Type: Article

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