Methods for discrete variable structural optimization

Recent Advances in Optimal Structural Design

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 1-40

  Arora, Jasbir S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); PRESTRESSED BEAMS AND GIRDERS; REINFORCED CONCRETE; REINFORCEMENT; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

DISCRETE DESIGN VARIABLE; PRACTICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

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