Global-local structural optimization using response surfaces of local optimization margins

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 352-359

  Liu, B ^a   Haftka, R T ^a   Watson, L T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Constraint margins; Decomposition; Local global structural optimization; Response surfaces

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DECOMPOSITION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CONSTRAINT MARGINS; GLOBAL STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; RESPONSE SURFACES;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 4043172804     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00158-004-0393-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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