TY  - JOUR
AB  - Describes development work to combine the basic ESO with the additive evolutionary structural optimisation (AESO) to produce bidirectional ESO whereby material can be added and can be removed. It will be shown that this provides the same results as the traditional ESO. This has two benefits, it validates the whole ESO concept and there is a significant time saving since the structure grows from a small initial one rather than contracting from a sometimes huge initial one where 90 per cent of the material gets removed over many hundreds of finite element analysis (FEA) evolutionary cycles. Presents a brief background to the current state of Structural Optimisation research. This is followed by a discussion of the strategies for the bidirectional ESO (BESO) algorithm and two examples are presented.
VL  - 15
IS  - 8
SN  - 0264-4401
DO  - 10.1108/02644409810244129
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/02644409810244129
AU  - Querin O.M.
AU  - Steven G.P.
AU  - Xie Y.M.
PY  - 1998
Y1  - 1998/01/01
TI  - Evolutionary structural optimisation (ESO) using a bidirectional algorithm
T2  - Engineering Computations
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 1031
EP  - 1048
Y2  - 2024/05/10
ER  -