Efficiency improvement of simulated annealing in optimal structural designs

Advances in Engineering Software

Volumn 33, Issue 7-10, 2002, Pages 675-680

  Chen, Ting Yu ^a   Su, Jyh Jye ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Optimization problems; Simulated annealing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

EID: 0036663207     PISSN: 09659978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-9978(02)00058-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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