Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=ucme20 Download by: [Texas A&M University Libraries] Date: 16 October 2016, At: 20:38 International Journal for Computational Methods in Engineering Science and Mechanics ISSN: 1550-2287 (Print) 1550-2295 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ucme20 A Genetic Algorithm and Fuzzy Approach (GAFA) for Constrained Nonlinear Optimization in Design Vijayakumar Bhuvaneshwaran , Reza Langari & Cecilia Temponi To cite this article: Vijayakumar Bhuvaneshwaran , Reza Langari & Cecilia Temponi (2006) A Genetic Algorithm and Fuzzy Approach (GAFA) for Constrained Nonlinear Optimization in Design, International Journal for Computational Methods in Engineering Science and Mechanics, 7:3, 173-189, DOI: 10.1080/15502280500388060 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15502280500388060 Published online: 23 Feb 2007. Submit your article to this journal Article views: 30 View related articles Citing articles: 2 View citing articles