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Evolutionary Structural Optimization (ESO) has been previously successfully applied to 2D and 3D optimization of continuous domains for static, dynamic and stability analyses. In the preceding chapters attention has been focussed on shape and topology optimization under different optimality constraints. There is a significant class of practical structural forms involving frame structures where the layout of the structure is known and only the size of the frame members are design variables. The frames can be either pin-jointed or rigid-jointed or a combination of the two. Finding the appropriate combination of member sizes that meet some optimality objectives under single or multiple load environments is the subject of this chapter. Also for frame structures this chapter shows that topology optimization can be conducted and is successful, provided the initial design space or ground structure is sufficiently large.
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Xie, Y.M., Steven, G.P. (1997). ESO for Pin- and Rigid-Jointed Frames. In: Evolutionary Structural Optimization. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0985-3_7
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