Improving the performance of simulated annealing in structural optimization

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 189-203

  Hasançebi, Ǒguzhan ^a   Carbas Serdar ^a   Saka, Mehmet Polat ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Discrete optimization; Metaheuristic search techniques; Simulated annealing; Steel frameworks; Structural optimization

Indexed keywords

ALLOWABLE STRESS DESIGN; CONVERGENCE CHARACTERISTICS; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; DISCRETE OPTIMIZATION; IMPROVED ALGORITHM; INTEGRATED APPROACH; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; PLANAR STEEL FRAMES; SA ALGORITHM; SEARCH TECHNIQUE; SPACE STEEL FRAMES; STEEL FRAMEWORK;

ALGORITHMS; ANNEALING; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; METAL ANALYSIS; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION; STANDARDS; STEEL CONSTRUCTION; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL FRAMES; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

EID: 77649337563     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: 16151488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00158-009-0418-9     Document Type: Article

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