Optimum design of steel structures with web openings

Engineering Structures

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2528-2537

  Lagaros, Nikos D ^a   Psarras, Lemonis D ^a   Papadrakakis, Manolis ^a   Panagiotou, Giannis ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Evolution strategies; Steel structures; Structural optimization; Web openings

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; STEEL; STEEL CONSTRUCTION; STEEL STRUCTURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOPOLOGY;

CHARACTERISTIC TESTING; DESIGN VARIABLES; DISCRETIZATION; EVOLUTION STRATEGIES; FINITE-ELEMENT DISCRETIZATION; NUMBER AND SIZE; OPTIMIZ ATION PROBLEMS; OPTIMUM DESIGNS; SERVICEABILITY REQUIREMENTS; SHAPE DESIGNS; STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; STRUCTURAL STRENGTH; TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION; WEB OPENINGS;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

DESIGN; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; STEEL STRUCTURE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 50149121769     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2008.02.002     Document Type: Article

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