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 …
Recent advances in structural technology require greater accuracy, efficiency and speed in design of structural systems. It is therefore not surprising that new methods have been …
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 …
The aim of this state-of-the-art review is to present the recent progress about the design optimization and applications of metaheuristic algorithms in civil engineering. In this chapter …
Almost all design problems in engineering can be considered as optimization problems and thus require optimization techniques to solve. However, as most real-world problems are …
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 …
An accessible introduction to metaheuristics and optimization, featuring powerful and modern algorithms for application across engineering and the sciences From engineering …
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 …
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 …