Effects of microscale material randomness on the attainment of optimal structural shapes

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 26, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 67-76

  Liszka, T ^a   Ostoja Starzewski, M ^b  

^a ALTAIR ENGINEERING   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Optimal structures; Random microstructure

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TENSORS; TOPOLOGY;

OPTIMAL STRUCTURES; RANDOM DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM MICROSTRUCTURE;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 1142288318     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00158-003-0304-9     Document Type: Article

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