Upper bound strategy in optimum design of truss structures: A big bang-big crunch algorithm based application

Advances in Structural Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1035-1046

  Kazemzadeh Azad, S ^a,b   Hasancebi O ^a   Erol, O K ^c  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

big bang big crunch algorithm; metaheuristic search techniques; structural design optimization; truss structures; upper bound strategy

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY MODELS; META-HEURISTIC SEARCH TECHNIQUES; META-HEURISTIC TECHNIQUES; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; TRUSS OPTIMIZATION; TRUSS STRUCTURE; UPPER BOUND;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84880280448     PISSN: 13694332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/1369-4332.16.6.1035     Document Type: Article

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