An enhanced chromosome encoding and morphological representation of geometry for structural topology optimization using GA

2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 4178-4185

  Tai, K ^a   Wang, N ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIMULATED TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL GEOMETRY;

CHROMOSOMES; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GEOMETRY; PROBLEM SOLVING; TOPOLOGY;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 70449726184     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2007.4425016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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