Solving nonconvex SDP problems of structural optimization with stability control

Optimization Methods and Software

Volumn 19, Issue 5 SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 595-609

  Kočvara, Michal ^a   Stingl, Michael ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION THEORY AND AUTOMATION   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Buckling; Nonconvex semidefinite programming; Stability control; Structural optimization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BUCKLING; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING; STIFFNESS MATRIX;

GLOBAL STABILITY; NONCONVEX SEMIDEFINITE PROGRAMMING; STABILITY CONTROL; TRUST-REGION TECHNIQUE;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 6344245936     PISSN: 10556788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10556780410001682844     Document Type: Article

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