Fully stressed design evolution strategy for shape and size optimization of truss structures

Computers and Structures

Volumn 123, Issue , 2013, Pages 58-67

  Ahrari, Ali ^a   Atai, Ali A ^b  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Adaptive penalty; Covariance Matrix Adaptation; Expected Running Time; Resizing; Truss optimization

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE PENALTY; COVARIANCE MATRIX ADAPTATION; EXPECTED RUNNING TIME; RESIZING; TRUSS OPTIMIZATION;

DESIGN; MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; OPTIMIZATION; TRUSSES;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84877870453     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2013.04.013     Document Type: Article

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