Optimum design of steel skeleton structures

Studies in Computational Intelligence

Volumn 191, Issue , 2009, Pages 87-112

  Saka, Mehmet Polat ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Combinatorial structural optimization; Harmony search method; Metaheuristic search techniques; Optimum design of steel structures; Structural optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 62549098673     PISSN: 1860949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00185-7_6     Document Type: Article

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