A multi-stage particle swarm for optimum design of truss structures

Neural Computing and Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1297-1309

  Talatahari, S ^a   Kheirollahi, M ^b   Farahmandpour, C ^a   Gandomi, A H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Optimum design; Particle swarm optimization; Truss structures

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE RATES; ITS EFFICIENCIES; OPTIMUM DESIGNS; OPTIMUM SOLUTION; PARTICLE SWARM; STANDARD VERSIONS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; TRUSS STRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

EID: 84884812752     PISSN: 09410643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00521-012-1072-5     Document Type: Article

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