Optimum structural design via convex model superposition

Computers and Structures

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 639-647

  Ganzerli, Sara ^a   Pantelides, Chris P ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; TRUSSES;

MULTIDIMENSIONAL CONVEX MODEL; UNCERTAIN LOADS;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 0033906307     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7949(99)00077-2     Document Type: Article

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