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Discussion of “Macroelement and Macropatch Approaches to Structural Topology Optimization Using the Ground Structure Method” by Xiaojia Zhang, Sushant Maheshwari, Adeildo S. Ramos Jr., and Glaucio H. Paulino

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Received: Sep 27, 2016
Accepted: Mar 16, 2017
Published online: Jul 6, 2018
Published in print: Oct 1, 2018
Discussion open until: Dec 6, 2018

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Jitao Zhong [email protected]
Assistant Professor, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Civil Engineering Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Shandong Univ. of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China (corresponding author). Email: [email protected]
Professor, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Civil Engineering Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, Shandong Univ. of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China. Email: [email protected]
Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Civil and Earth Resource Engineering, Kyoto Univ., Kyoto 606-8501, Japan. Email: [email protected]
Assistant Professor, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Civil Engineering Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, Shandong Univ. of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China. Email: [email protected]

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