Steel space frames having irregular shapes when subjected to lateral loads caused by wind
or earthquakes undergo twisting as a result of their unsymmetrical topology. As a result …

Recent developments in optimization techniques that deals in finding the solution of
combinatorial optimization problems has provided steel designers new capabilities. These …

The effect of warping in the design of steel space frames having members of thin walled
steel sections is significant. In this paper the optimum design problem of steel space frames …

There is a noticeable increase in the emergence of non-deterministic search techniques that
simulate natural phenomena into a numerical optimization technique in recent years. These …

In this article, a harmony search algorithm is presented for optimum design of steel frame
structures. Harmony search is a meta-heuristic search method which has been developed …

In this study the robustness of six metaheuristic algorithms–ant colony optimization, genetic
algorithm, harmony search, particle swarm optimization, simulated annealing and tabu …

This chapter considers the implementation of the heuristic particle swarm ant colony
optimization (HPSACO) methodology to find an optimum design of different types of …

This paper presents an improved ant colony optimization (IACO) for the design of planar
steel frames. The algorithm consists of two phases: the global search phase and the local …

Harmony search method is widely applied in structural design optimization since its
emergence. These applications have shown that harmony search algorithm is robust …

The harmony search method based optimum design algorithm is presented for geometrically
non-linear semi-rigid steel frames. Harmony search method is recently developed …