Cost minimization of 2D continuum structures under stress constraints by increasing commonality in their skeletal equivalents

Forschung im Ingenieurwesen/Engineering Research

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 159-169

  Provatidis, C G ^a   Venetsanos, D T ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; STRESS ANALYSIS;

CONTINUUM STRUCTURES; COST MINIMIZATION; SEQUENTIAL QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING (SQP);

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 33748329356     PISSN: 00157899     EISSN: 14340860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10010-006-0026-4     Document Type: Article

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