Parallel evolutionary optimization of multibody systems with application to railway dynamics

Multibody System Dynamics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 143-164

  Eberhard, Peter ^a   Dignath, Florian ^b   Kübler, Lars ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

ICE coach; Load balancing; Multicriteria optimization; Optimization of multibody systems; Parallel evolution strategy; Railway dynamics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DAMPING; INTEGRATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

MULTIBODY SYSTEMS;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037344572     PISSN: 13845640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022515214842     Document Type: Article

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