Analysis and benchmarking of meta-heuristic techniques for lay-up optimization

Computers and Structures

Volumn 88, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 272-282

  Bloomfield, Mark W ^a   Herencia, J Enrique ^a   Weaver, Paul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ACO; GA; Meta heuristics; Optimization; PSO; Stacking sequence

Indexed keywords

ACO; ANT COLONIES; ANT-COLONY OPTIMIZATION; BUCKLING CONSTRAINTS; COMPOSITE LAMINATE; CONTINUOUS PROBLEMS; DISCRETE SETS; META HEURISTIC ALGORITHM; META HEURISTICS; META-HEURISTIC TECHNIQUES; OTHER ALGORITHMS; PARTICLE SWARM; PLY ORIENTATION; SIMPLY SUPPORTED; STACKING SEQUENCE;

BENCHMARKING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS;

PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

EID: 75749136004     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2009.10.007     Document Type: Article

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