Convergent and mesh-independent solutions for the bi-directional evolutionary structural optimization method

Finite Elements in Analysis and Design

Volumn 43, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 1039-1049

  Huang, X ^a   Xie, Y M ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bi directional evolutionary structural optimization (BESO); Computation efficiency; Convergent solution stability; Mesh independency

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BI-DIRECTIONAL EVOLUTIONARY STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; COMPUTATION EFFICIENCY; CONVERGENT SOLUTION STABILITY; MESH INDEPENDENCY;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 35148836776     PISSN: 0168874X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.finel.2007.06.006     Document Type: Article

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