Reliability-based topology optimization of double layer grids using a two-stage optimization method

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 815-833

  Mashayekhi, Mostafa ^a   Salajegheh, Eysa ^a   Salajegheh, Javad ^a   Fadaee, Mohammad Javad ^a  

^a SHAHID BAHONAR UNIVERSITY OF KERMAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization; Double layer grids; Method of moving asymptotes; Monte Carlo simulation; Reliability based topology optimization; Third order approximation

Indexed keywords

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION (ACO); DOUBLE LAYER GRIDS; METHOD OF MOVING ASYMPTOTES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; RELIABILITY-BASED TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION; THIRD ORDER;

ALGORITHMS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; STIFFNESS; TOPOLOGY;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 84861457569     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: 16151488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00158-011-0744-6     Document Type: Article

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