Layout optimisation of trusses using simulated annealing

Advances in Engineering Software

Volumn 33, Issue 7-10, 2002, Pages 681-696

  Hasançebi, Oguzhan ^a   Erbatur, Fuat ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Layout design of trusses; Member and node restoring and removing approaches; Optimisation; Reformulated Boltzmann parameter; Simulated annealing; Simultaneous optimum design; Structural optimisation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; SIMULATED ANNEALING; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; TOPOLOGY;

REFORMULATED BOLTZMANN PARAMETER;

TRUSSES;

EID: 0036663210     PISSN: 09659978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-9978(02)00049-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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