A MATHEMATICAL CONVERGENCE ANALYSIS OF THE CONVEX LINEARIZATION METHOD FOR ENGINEERING DESIGN OPTIMIZATION

1 July 1987

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Engineering Optimization

Vol. 11 (3) , 195-216
https://doi.org/10.1080/03052158708941045

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the convex linearization method recently proposed by Fleury and Braibant for structural optimization. We give here a mathematical convergence analysis or this method. We also discuss some modifications of it.

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