[PDF] Top 20 Optimal selection of topologies for the minimum-weight design of continuum structures with stress constraints

... the optimal selection of topologies for the minimum-weight design of continuum structures subject to stress constraints by using the performance index ... See full document

... of continuum structures has attracted considerable attention in recent years since it offers significant material savings than traditional sizing ...optimize continuum structures by treating ... See full document

... principal stress vector field for a point-loaded cantilever structure was presented and compared to previously found optimal truss designs, a method of determining principal stress trajectory paths ... See full document

... an optimal shape of a structure at the conceptual level. The optimal structural shape is generated within a predefined design ...give optimal structural shape and thus this gives the first ... See full document

... The moment ratio shown above represents the SDF. This ratio is a function of the steel yield strength, which is the most important parameter in SDM and the allowable steel stress, the most important parameter in ... See full document

... Focusing on the idea that the equation of exponential smoothing method(ESM) was equivalent to (1,1) order ARMA model equation, a new method of estimation of smoothing constant in exponential smoothing method was proposed ... See full document

... a minimum wage law to implement the optimal redistribution policy when a distorting tax-transfer scheme is also ...and minimum wage ...that optimal redistribution may imply the use of only ... See full document

... a minimum wage on worker surplus is analyzed by ...the minimum wage that maximizes expected worker surplus is ...a minimum wage may be set by bargaining, Boeri (2012) assumes that the gov- ernment ... See full document

... 5. Two-terminal reliability of complete topologies with at most four edge relia- bility values. In this section, we define a class of complete graphs, whose edges can be partitioned into four elementary reliability ... See full document

... Despite its practical importance, very little work has been done on handling multiple competing outcomes. Lizotte et al. considered linear combinations of two competing out- comes indexed by a trade-off parameter and ... See full document

... the minimum wage can increase the salaries of eligible workers but does not necessarily improve equity in the ...a minimum wage can do more harm than good and even reduce net income for low- skilled ... See full document

... the optimal design of structures operating in harsh environments simultaneously while experiencing the impact as external corrosive environments, as well as the impact of the stress state on ... See full document

... By generalizing a certain path following algorithm to the case where the variable belongs to an infinite dimensional Hilbert space, interior point algorithms for solving LQ control probl[r] ... See full document

... …nancing constraints may be the result of optimizing behavior of lenders, rather than a consequence of exogenous forces (Hodgman (1960), Keeton (1979), Stiglitz and Weiss ... See full document

... mechanism selection and the performance of various trading mechanisms in a model of competitive search, where some buyers are budget ...Mechanism selection becomes more strategic if potential customers have ... See full document

... Minimum error rate training is a crucial compo- nent to many state-of-the-art NLP applications, such as machine translation and speech recog- nition. However, common evaluation functions such as BLEU or word error ... See full document

... Abstract. In this paper, a new Hybrid Charged System Search and Particle Swarm Optimization, HCSSPSO, is presented. Although Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) has many advantages, including directional search, it has ... See full document

... The predictions tended to overestimate genetic change, but observed responses in the body weight lines were within the confidence intervals up to about generation 4 [r] ... See full document

... the minimum Hamming weight for linear codes over special finite quasi-Frobenius ...this weight using the Gr¨ obner basis and we show that under certain con- ditions a linear code takes the maximum of ... See full document

... Aylett et al. created the Chemical Engineering Planner (CEP) as a plan- ner capable of generating plans for chemical plants. One of the requirements is that the plans must not visit any states that violate any safety ... See full document