Optimum design of cellular beams using the harmony search method

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Engineering Computational Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Erdal, F ^a   Saka, M P ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cellular beams; Combinatorial optimization; Harmony search algorithm; Minimum weight design; Optimum structural design; Stochastic search techniques

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR BEAMS; HARMONY SEARCH ALGORITHMS; MINIMUM WEIGHT DESIGN; OPTIMUM STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STOCHASTIC SEARCH TECHNIQUES;

ALGORITHMS; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; DEPTH PROFILING; PUBLISHING; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

DESIGN;

EID: 84858383389     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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