On the equivalence of optimality criterion and sequential approximate optimization methods in the classical topology layout problem

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 297-316

  Groenwold, Albert A ^a   Etman, L F P ^b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Convex separable approximations; Duality; Exponential intervening variables; Optimality criterion (OC); Sequential approximate optimization (SAO); Topology optimization

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; DAMPING; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS;

DAMPING FACTOR; OPTIMALITY CRITERION METHOD; SEQUENTIAL APPROXIMATE OPTIMIZATION;

SHAPE OPTIMIZATION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; DAMPING; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 38349102213     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2071     Document Type: Article

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