Minimum-weight design of non-linear steel frames using combinatorial optimization algorithms

Steel and Composite Structures

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 201-217

  Hayalioglu, M S ^a   Degertekin, S O ^a  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Allowable stress design; Load and resistance factor design; Non linear analysis; Optimum design; Simulated annealing; Steel frames; Tabu search

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; SIMULATED ANNEALING; STEEL STRUCTURES; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TABU SEARCH;

LOAD AND RESISTANCE FACTOR DESIGN (LRFD); NONLINEAR STEEL PLANE FRAMES; SIZE CONSTRAINTS;

STRUCTURAL FRAMES;

EID: 34547283301     PISSN: 12299367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12989/scs.2007.7.3.201     Document Type: Article

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