Optimum Design of Skeletal Structures via Big Bang-Big Crunch Algorithm

Metaheuristic Applications in Structures and Infrastructures

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 173-205

  Talatahari, Siamak ^a   Kaveh, Ali ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

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EID: 84882731844     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-398364-0.00008-5     Document Type: Chapter

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