Optimization methods for crashworthiness design using multibody models

Computers and Structures

Volumn 82, Issue 17-19, 2004, Pages 1371-1380

  Dias, J P ^a   Pereira, M S ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Crashworthiness; Genetic algorithms; Multibody dynamics; Multicriteria; Optimization; Simplified models; Spring mass models; Train structures

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRICTION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; RAILROAD PLANT AND STRUCTURES; SET THEORY; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; VECTORS;

MULTIBODY DYNAMICS; MULTICRITERIA; SIMPLIFIED MODELS; SPRING-MASS MODELS; TRAIN STRUCTURES;

CRASHWORTHINESS;

EID: 3042820297     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2004.03.032     Document Type: Conference Paper

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