Upper bound strategy for metaheuristic based design optimization of steel frames

Advances in Engineering Software

Volumn 57, Issue , 2013, Pages 19-32

  Kazemzadeh Azad, S ^a,b   Hasancebi O ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

AISC LRFD provisions; Big bang big crunch algorithm; Metaheuristic search techniques; Steel frames; Structural optimization; Upper bound strategy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; STEEL CONSTRUCTION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

AISC-LRFD PROVISIONS; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; META HEURISTIC ALGORITHM; META-HEURISTIC SEARCH; METAHEURISTIC; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OPTIMUM DESIGNS; STEEL FRAME; STEEL FRAME STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS; UPPER BOUND;

STRUCTURAL FRAMES;

EID: 84871374380     PISSN: 09659978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advengsoft.2012.11.016     Document Type: Article

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