On the modelling and solving of the truss design problem with global stability constraints

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 189-203

  Kocvara M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Global stability; Interior point technique; Nonlinearity; Semidefinite programming; Truss optimization

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELASTICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYNOMIALS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STABILITY; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

SEMIDEFINITE PROGRAMMING;

TRUSSES;

EID: 0036540165     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00158-002-0177-3     Document Type: Article

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