Advances in civil engineering technology require greater accuracy, efficiency, and speed in the analysis and design of the corresponding systems. It is therefore not surprising that new …
Recent advances in civil engineering technology require greater accuracy, efficiency, and speed in the analysis and design of the corresponding systems. It is therefore not surprising …
The importance of optimization is permanently increasing in today's world due to limitations in available resources and increase in human population. Engineers always strive to design …
Due to an ever-decreasing supply in raw materials and stringent constraints on conventional energy sources, demand for lightweight, efficient and low-cost structures has become …
A detailed review of a wide range of meta-heuristic and evolutionary algorithms in a systematic manner and how they relate to engineering optimization problems This book …
An accessible introduction to metaheuristics and optimization, featuring powerful and modern algorithms for application across engineering and the sciences From engineering …
In metaheuristic algorithms, meta-means “beyond” or “higher level.” They generally perform better than simple heuristics. All metaheuristic algorithms use some trade-off of local search …
GR Zavala, AJ Nebro, F Luna… - Structural and …, 2014 - Springer
In civil and industrial engineering, structural design optimization problems are usually characterized by the presence of multiple conflicting objectives, as to get the minimum …
The type of mathematical modeling selected for the optimum design problems of steel skeletal frames affects the size and mathematical complexity of the programming problem …