Globalized nelder-mead method for engineering optimization

Computers and Structures

Volumn 82, Issue 23-26, 2004, Pages 2251-2260

  Luersen, Marco A ^a,b   Le Riche, Rodolphe ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDADE TECNOLÓGICA FEDERAL DO PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^c Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines   (France)

Author keywords

Composite laminate design; Global optimization; Nelder Mead

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; HYBRID COMPUTERS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LAMINATES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

COMPOSITE LAMINATE DESIGN; GAUSSIAN PARZEN-WINDOWS; GLOBALIZED BOUNDED NELDER-MEAD (GBNM) ALGORITHMS; NELDER-MEAD;

GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 4944233656     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2004.03.072     Document Type: Conference Paper

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