Truss system optimization using the 'voting method'
Abstract
This paper deals with the description of a program for the optimization of a statically indetermined truss system. The solution follows from a definite set of discrete values of bar profiles which are available. The actual solution is obtained using the voting method. Three illustration examples are presented together with the program in FORTRAN.
- Publication:
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Computers and Structures
- Pub Date:
- September 1992
- Bibcode:
- 1992CoStr..45..127M
- Keywords:
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- Computer Aided Design;
- Galerkin Method;
- Nonlinear Programming;
- Optimization;
- Trusses;
- Computer Programs;
- Fortran;
- Matrices (Mathematics);
- Stress Analysis;
- Weight Reduction;
- Structural Mechanics