Effect of mutation schemes on convergence to optimum design of steel frames

Journal of Constructional Steel Research

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 954-961

  Issa, Honar K ^a   Mohammad, Fouad A ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributed genetic algorithm; Mutation schemes; Structural optimization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION TIME; DISTRIBUTED GENETIC ALGORITHM; DISTRIBUTED GENETIC ALGORITHMS; FEASIBLE DESIGN; GLOBAL OPTIMUM SOLUTIONS; MUTATION OPERATORS; OPTIMUM DESIGNS; OPTIMUM SOLUTION; SPEED OF CONVERGENCE; STEEL FRAME;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; DISSOLVED OXYGEN SENSORS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; STEEL CONSTRUCTION; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL FRAMES;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 77949913452     PISSN: 0143974X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcsr.2010.02.002     Document Type: Article

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