An evaluation of back-propagation neural networks for the optimal design of structural systems: Part II. Numerical evaluation

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 191, Issue 25-26, 2002, Pages 2887-2904

  Zhang, Li ^a   Subbarayan, Ganesh ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximations methods; Feed forward neural networks; Structural optimization; Training algorithms

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BACKPROPAGATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

GLOBAL APPROXIMATIONS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

NEURAL NETWORK;

EID: 0037066642     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7825(02)00213-X     Document Type: Article

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