Evolutionary structural optimisation based on boundary representation of NURBS. Part I: 2D algorithms

Computers and Structures

Volumn 83, Issue 23-24, 2005, Pages 1902-1916

  Cervera, E ^a   Trevelyan, J ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundary element method; Evolutionary structural optimisation; NURBS

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; TOPOLOGY;

CONTROL POINTS; EVOLUTIONARY STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION (ESO); NON-UNIFORM RATIONAL B-SPLINES (NURBS); OPTIMUM TOPOLOGIES;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 21444450941     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2005.02.016     Document Type: Article

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