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Evolutionary Structural Optimization

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Structural optimization is a fusion in the areas of engineering, mathematics, science and technology that has the goal of achieving the best performance for a structure, be it a bridge or a space vehicle or a spectacle frame. All aspects of the environment the structure lives in must be accommodated even undesirable ones, crash worthiness of cars being an example.

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  1. Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Victoria University of Technology, Victoria, 8001, Australia

    Y. M. Xie

  2. Department of Aeronautical Engineering, University of Sydney, New South Wales, 2006, Australia

    G. P. Steven

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Xie, Y.M., Steven, G.P. (1997). Introduction. In: Evolutionary Structural Optimization. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0985-3_1

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