It is an undeniable fact that there are main challenges in the use of metaheuristics for
optimal design of real-size steel frames in practice. In general, steel frame optimization …

In the present study an enhanced variant of the big bang-big crunch (BB-BC) technique,
namely exponential BB-BC algorithm (EBB-BC) is developed for code based design …

Optimum design of structural systems based on metaheuristic algorithms suffers from
enormously time-consuming structural analyses to locate a reasonable design. In this paper …

Performance-based design optimization of steel frames, with element sections selected from
standard sections, is a computationally intensive task. In this article, an efficient discrete …

Computational cost of metaheuristic based optimum design algorithms grows excessively
with structure size. This results in computational inefficiency of modern metaheuristic …

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 …

Steel frames are gaining prominence in the construction industry for their practical
advantages and remarkable structural performance. As the demand for cost-effective frame …

In this study, the three different meta-heuristics namely the Grey Wolf Optimizer (GWO),
Stochastic Fractal Search (SFS), and Adaptive Differential Evolution with Optional External …

The design of steel frames often involves an optimization process, in which the design
evolves from an initial to a final configuration. The goal of most optimal steel design …

In spite of considerable research work on the development of efficient algorithms for discrete
sizing optimization of steel truss structures, only a few studies have addressed non …