A newhybrid meta-heuristic for optimum design of frame structures

Asian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 705-717

  Kaveh, A ^a   Talatahari, S ^b   Alami, M T ^b  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

Heuristic particle swarm ant colony optimization; Hybrid big bang big crunch algorithm; Meta heuristic optimization algorithms; Optimal design of frames

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864802181     PISSN: 15630854     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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