Elastoplastic truss design using a displ
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Wenjiong Gu; Zafer Gürdal; Samy Missoum
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Article
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2002
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Elsevier Science
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English
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A displacement based optimization (DBO) method is applied to truss design problems with material nonlinearities, to explore feasibility and verify efficiency of the method as compared to traditional structural optimization. Minimumweight truss sizing problems with various path-independent elastoplas