Elitist Self-Adaptive Step-Size Search in Optimum Sizing of Steel Structures

• Oğuzhan Hasançebi
• Saeid Kazemzadeh Azad

• Structural design optimization
• optimal sizing
• metaheuristics
• self-adaptive step-size search
• steel trusses
• steel frames.}

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