An interactive method for the selection of design criteria and the formulation of optimization problems in computer aided optimal design

Computers and Structures

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 71-79

  Maute, Kurt ^a   Raulli, Michael ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

Inverse optimization problem; Multi objective formulation; Shape optimization; Structural optimization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

INVERSE OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION;

INTELLIGENT STRUCTURES;

EID: 0344494493     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2003.08.002     Document Type: Article

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