Design of Civil Engineering Frame Structures Using a Monomial/Newton Hybrid Method

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 105, Issue 1-4, 2001, Pages 21-35

  Burns, Scott A ^a   Mueller, Keith M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b American Institute of Steel Construction   (United States)

Author keywords

Engineering design; Geometric programming; Monomial method; Newton's method; Nonlinear systems of equations; Optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035568530     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013393213240     Document Type: Article

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