Design optimization of a vehicle b-pillar subjected to roof crush using Mixed Reactive Taboo Search

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2 A, Issue , 2003, Pages 449-457

  Hamza, Karim ^a   Saitou, Kazuhiro ^a   Nassef, Ashraf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b The American University in Cairo   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; CRASHWORTHINESS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PRODUCTION CONTROL; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING;

MIXED REACTIVE TABOO SEARCH (MRTS); REACTIVE TABOO SEARCH (RTS); SEQUENTIAL QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING (SQP);

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 1842710162     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/detc2003/dac-48750     Document Type: Conference Paper

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