Optimization of ballast plan in launch jacket load-out

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 267-288

  Kurniawan, Adi ^a   Guowei, Ma ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Ballast; Barge; Beam on elastic foundations; Load out; Multi objective evolutionary algorithms

Indexed keywords

BEAM ON ELASTIC FOUNDATION; LOAD-OUT; MULTI OBJECTIVE EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; OVERSTRESSING; TRANSFER EFFICIENCY;

BALLAST (RAILROAD TRACK); BARGES; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 77951562846     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: 16151488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00158-008-0287-7     Document Type: Article

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