Design of tensegrity structures using parametric analysis and stochastic search

Engineering with Computers

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 193-203

  Rhode Barbarigos, Landolf ^a   Jain, Himanshu ^b   Kripakaran, Prakash ^a   Smith, Ian F C ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Bridge; Optimization; Stochastic search; Structural design; Tensegrity

Indexed keywords

CURRENT PRACTICES; DESIGN METHOD; GEOMETRICALLY NONLINEAR; GRADIENT-BASED OPTIMIZATION; LOCAL MINIMUMS; MINIMAL COST; PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS; PARAMETRIC STUDY; PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE; PENALTY COST; PROBABILISTIC GLOBAL SEARCH LAUSANNE; SEARCH PARAMETERS; SOLUTION SPACE; STOCHASTIC SEARCH; STRUCTURAL BEHAVIORS; TENSEGRITIES; TENSEGRITY; TENSEGRITY STRUCTURE; TENSEGRITY SYSTEMS;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; FOOTBRIDGES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 77954817811     PISSN: 01770667     EISSN: 14355663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00366-009-0154-1     Document Type: Article

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