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It is well known that, for real-life engineering problems, minimum weight does not necessarily mean minimum cost, thus it is of practical value to simultaneously achieve both layout optimization and cost minimization of a structure. Towards this direction, the present paper discusses a procedure of four steps concerning 2D continuum structures under stress constraints only. The continuum is first...