A multicriteria evolutionary algorithm for mechanical design optimization with expert rules

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 516-536

  Coelho, R Filomeno ^a   Bouillard, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Evolutionary algorithms; Expert systems; Mechanical design; Structural optimization

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; TOPOLOGY;

MECHANICAL BENCMARKS; MECHANICAL DESIGN; PREFERENCES APPLIED TO MULTIOBJECTIVITY AND CONSTRAINTS (PAMUC); TOPOLOGICAL VARIABLES;

DESIGN;

MATHEMATICAL METHOD;

EID: 12444297569     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1198     Document Type: Article

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