Evolutionary structural optimization for connection topology design of multi-component systems

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 18, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 460-479

  Li, Qing ^a   Steven, Grant P ^b   Xie, Y M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Components; Design; Finite element analysis; Structural optimization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGY;

EVOLUTIONARY STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; MULTI-COMPONENT SYSTEMS;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 0034927565     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644400110387127     Document Type: Article

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