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CSETS: 4
HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING FOR COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS
Edited by: B.H.V. Topping, L. Lämmer
Chapter 12

Evolution Strategies and Genetic Algorithms and their Parallelisation for Structural Optimization: Part 2 Parallelisation and Applications

J. Cai and G. Thierauf

University of Essen, Germany

Full Bibliographic Reference for this chapter
J. Cai, G. Thierauf, "Evolution Strategies and Genetic Algorithms and their Parallelisation for Structural Optimization: Part 2 Parallelisation and Applications", in B.H.V. Topping, L. Lämmer, (Editors), "High Performance Computing for Computational Mechanics", Saxe-Coburg Publications, Stirlingshire, UK, Chapter 12, pp 195-205, 2000. doi:10.4203/csets.4.12
Abstract
In the second part of this paper, the method to parallelise evolution strategies for solving mixed-discrete optimization problems is describt. Several examples of structural optimizazion are given for demonstrating the application of the ES in structural design problems.

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