Optimum topology design of various geometrically nonlinear latticed domes using improved harmony search method

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 377-399

  Çarba̧s, Serdar ^a   Saka, Mehmet P ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Geodesic domes; Harmony search algorithm; Lamella domes; Network domes; Optimum structural design; Stochastic search technique

Indexed keywords

DESIGN CONSTRAINTS; DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; DISCRETE PROGRAMMING; DOME STRUCTURE; GEODESIC DOMES; GEOMETRIC NON-LINEARITY; GEOMETRICALLY NONLINEAR; HARMONY SEARCH; HARMONY SEARCH ALGORITHMS; LOAD AND RESISTANCE FACTOR DESIGNS; MINIMUM WEIGHT; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMUM NUMBER; OPTIMUM SOLUTION; OPTIMUM STRUCTURAL DESIGN; OPTIMUM TOPOLOGIES; STOCHASTIC SEARCH TECHNIQUES; TOPOLOGICAL DESIGN; TUBULAR SECTIONS;

DESIGN; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; TOPOLOGY; TUBULAR STEEL STRUCTURES;

DOMES;

EID: 84859578815     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: 16151488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00158-011-0675-2     Document Type: Article

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