Bidirectional evolutionary topology optimization for structures with geometrical and material nonlinearities

AIAA Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 308-313

  Huang, X ^a,b   Xie, Y M ^a,b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b School of Civil and Chemical Engineering   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIDIRECTIONAL EVOLUTIONARY STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION (BESO); COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; NONLINEAR STRUCTURES; STIFFNESS MAXIMIZING;

ALGORITHMS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 33846695032     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.25046     Document Type: Article

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