Evolutionary topology and shape design for general physical field problems

Computational Mechanics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 129-139

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MODEL STRUCTURES; OPTIMIZATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TOPOLOGY;

EVOLUTIONARY TOPOLOGY; SHAPE DESIGN;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034249399     PISSN: 01787675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004660000160     Document Type: Article

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