Optimum design of steel frames with semi-rigid connections using Big Bang-Big Crunch method

Steel and Composite Structures

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 431-451

  Rafiee, A ^a   Talatahari, S ^a   Hadidi, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

Big Bang Big Crunch algorithm; Meta heuristics; Optimum design; Semi rigid connections; Steel frames

Indexed keywords

BEAM-TO-COLUMN CONNECTIONS; DISPLACEMENT AND STRESS CONSTRAINTS; META HEURISTICS; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION PROCESS; OPTIMUM DESIGNS; SEMIRIGID CONNECTIONS; STEEL FRAME;

ALGORITHMS; STRUCTURAL FRAMES;

STEEL CONSTRUCTION;

EID: 84878910179     PISSN: 12299367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12989/scs.2013.14.5.431     Document Type: Article

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