A HYBRID GENETIC-DIRECT SEARCH ALGORITHM FOR THE SHAPE OPTIMIZATION OF SOLID C-FRAME CROSS-SECTIONS

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages 131-139

  Nassef, Ashraf O ^a   Hegazi, Hesham A ^a   Metwalli, Sayed M ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Direct search; Genetic algorithms; NURBS; Shape optimization

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INTERPOLATION; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

DIRECT SEARCH; DIRECT SEARCH ALGORITHM; DIRECT SEARCH METHODS; HYBRID GENETIC; HYBRIDISATION; NELDER MEADS; NON-UNIFORM RATIONAL B-SPLINES; REAL CODED GENETIC ALGORITHM; SHAPE-OPTIMIZATION; SOLID C;

SHAPE OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 85148540734     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2000/DAC-14295     Document Type: Conference Paper

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