A charged system search with a fly to boundary method for discrete optimum design of truss structures

Asian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 277-293

  Kaveh, A ^a   Talatahari, S ^b  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

Charged system search; Fly to boundary method; Meta heuristic algorithms; Optimum discrete design; Truss structures

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957969896     PISSN: 15630854     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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