Heuristic approaches to large-scale periodic packing of irregular shapes on a rectangular sheet

The nesting problem is a two-dimensional cutting and packing problem where the small pieces to cut have irregular shapes. A particular case of the nesting problem occurs when congruent copies of one single shape have to fill, as much as possible, a limited sheet. Traditional approaches to the nestin...

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Main Author: M. Teresa Costa (author)
Other Authors: A. Miguel Gomes (author), José F. Oliveira (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2009
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Online Access:https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/91984
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio-aberto.up.pt:10216/91984