Local update schemes for cellular automata in structural design

9th AIAA/ISSMO Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Missoum, Samy ^a,b   Gürdal, Zafer ^a,c   Setoodeh, Shahriar ^a,d  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Department   (United States)

^c Aerospace and Ocean Engineering and Engineering Science and Mechanics Departments   (United States)

^d Engineering Science and Mechanics Department   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING;

DESIGN RULES; LOCAL PROBLEMS; OPTIMALITY; OPTIMALITY CRITERIA; PROBLEM SIZE; SYSTEMATIC EXPERIMENT; UPDATE SCHEMES;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 85088344865     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2002-5519     Document Type: Conference Paper

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