A Study of Mathematical Programming Methods for Structural Optimization

@inproceedings{Belegundu1985ASO,
  title={A Study of Mathematical Programming Methods for Structural Optimization},
  author={Ashok D. Belegundu},
  year={1985},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:59878906}
}
  • A. Belegundu
  • Published 1 September 1985
  • Engineering, Mathematics
The aim of this paper is to discuss the applicability of modern optimization techniques to structural design problems, and to present mathematical programming methods from a unified and design engineers' viewpoint.
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