Advantages of bi-directional evolutionary structural optimization (BESO) over evolutionary structural optimization (ESO)

Advances in Structural Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 727-737

  Huang, X ^a   Xie, Y M ^a   Burry, M C ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bi directional evolutionary structural optimization (BESO); Computational time; Evolutionary structural optimization (ESO); Robustness; Stiffness optimization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; TOPOLOGY;

BI-DIRECTIONAL EVOLUTIONARY STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; COMPUTATIONAL TIME; EVOLUTIONARY STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; STIFFNESS OPTIMIZATION;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 39449093451     PISSN: 13694332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/136943307783571436     Document Type: Article

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