Metaheuristic applications in structures and infrastructures /
Due to an ever-decreasing supply in raw materials and stringent constraints on conventional energy sources, demand for lightweight, efficient and low-cost structures has become crucially important in modern engineering design. This requires engineers to search for optimal and robust design options t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier Science,
2013.
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| Series: | Elsevier insights.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Due to an ever-decreasing supply in raw materials and stringent constraints on conventional energy sources, demand for lightweight, efficient and low-cost structures has become crucially important in modern engineering design. This requires engineers to search for optimal and robust design options to address design problems that are commonly large in scale and highly nonlinear, making finding solutions challenging. In the past two decades, metaheuristic algorithms have shown promising power, efficiency and versatility in solving these difficult optimization problems. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (577 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780123983794 0123983797 9781299193055 1299193056 |