A heuristic method for the design of minimum weight trusses using discrete member sizes

DOI10.1016/0045-7825(83)90140-8zbMath0486.73087OpenAlexW2075341473MaRDI QIDQ1165072

D. F. Yates, A. B. Templeman, T. Brian Boffey

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0045-7825(83)90140-8

zbMATH Keywords

approximate solutionheuristic methodminimum weight designa priori and a posteriori boundconstraints on joint deflectionconstraints on member stress and gaugediscrete set of commercially available member gaugesstructural trusssufficient condition for convergence to global optimum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical optimization and variational techniques (65K10) Optimization problems in solid mechanics (74P99)

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• The complexity of procedures for determining minimum weight trusses with discrete member sizes
• Fast Approximation Algorithms for the Knapsack and Sum of Subset Problems