%0 Journal Article %T Solution of a truss topology bilevel programming problem by means of an inexact restoration method %A Friedlander %A Ana %A Gomes %A Francisco A. M. %J Computational & Applied Mathematics %D 2011 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S1807-03022011000100006 %X we formulate a truss topology optimization problem as a bilevel programming problem and solve it by means of a line search type inexact restoration algorithm. we discuss details of the implementation and show results of numerical experiments. %K inexact restoration %K bilevel programming %K truss topology optimization. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1807-03022011000100006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en