Truss topology optimization for mass and reliability considerations - Co-evolutionary multiobjective formulations

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 589-613

  Greiner, David ^a   Hajela, Prabhat ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary algorithms; Multiobjective optimization; Reliability analysis; Structural topology optimization; Trusses

Indexed keywords

CO-EVOLUTION; CO-EVOLUTIONARY; COMPUTATIONAL ADVANTAGES; COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH; EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIZATIONS; GLOBAL SEARCH; GROUND STRUCTURE; HYPERVOLUME; LARGE-SCALE OPTIMIZATION; MULTI OBJECTIVE EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; MULTI-OBJECTIVE FORMULATION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OPTIMAL TOPOLOGIES; OPTIMIZATION PROCESS; SEARCH EFFICIENCY; SIMULTANEOUS OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL MASS; STRUCTURAL TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION; SYSTEM RELIABILITY; TRUSS STRUCTURE; TRUSS TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION; UNIQUE FEATURES;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGY; TRUSSES;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84861347331     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: 16151488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00158-011-0709-9     Document Type: Article

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