...E. Hinton; J. Sienz An automated fully stressed design approach based on the Xie and Steven algorithm is presented. With this algorithm a fully stressed design is obtained by a gradual removal of low stressed material. By applying this evolutionary procedure a layout or topology of a structure can...

...Y.M. Xie; G.P. Steven The structural optimization presented in this paper is based on an evolutionary procedure, developed recently, in which the low stressed part of a structure is removed from the structure step‐by‐step until an optimal design is obtained. Various tests have shown...