Recently, significant events took place that added immensely to the sociotechnical pressure
for developing sustainable composite recycling solutions, namely (1) a ban on composite …

The task of providing optimal composite structures is increasingly difficult. New analysis
approaches seek to model the material at the fibre/matrix scale and increasingly more …

The rising usage of carbon and glass fibers has raised awareness of scrap management
options. Every year, tons of composite scrap containing precious carbon and glass fibers …

Prediction of sludge bulking is a matter of growing importance around the world. Sludge
volume index (SVI) should be monitored to predict sludge bulking for a wastewater treatment …

The current work presents an application of Taguchi method to optimize injection molding
(IM) process parameters of sisal-glass fiber hybrid biocomposite. Six parameters that …

This study focuses on the frequency-based optimization of truss dome structures using
enhanced ant colony optimization algorithms for the continuous domain (ACO R). The …

This paper describes the effect of simultaneous upward and downward aeration on the
membrane fouling and process performances of a submerged membrane bioreactor. Trans …

This paper presents a new hybrid Particle Swarm Algorithm (PSO) for optimization of
laminated composite structures. The method combines the standard PSO heuristics with …

Optimization is an important area of research in Engineering, usually due to the potentiality
of saving costs and improving structural safety. Composite structures are typically complex …

Metaheuristics are stochastic optimization algorithms that mimic natural processes to find
optimal solutions to complex problems. The success of metaheuristics largely depends on …