Profitability versus safety of high-rise office buildings

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 279-293

  Khajehpour, S ^a   Grierson, D E ^b  

^a ATOMIC ENERGY OF CANADA LIMITED   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computer color filtering; Evolutionary search; High rise office buildings; Life cycle profitability; Load path safety; Pareto optimization; Progressive collapse

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COSTS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LIFE CYCLE; OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EVOLUTIONARY SEARCH; LOAD-PATH SAFETY;

BUILDINGS;

EID: 0344035541     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00158-003-0297-4     Document Type: Article

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