Nowadays, the environmental impact reduction and the reliability enhancement of operating
structures are basic trends in the heavy industry, which can be achieved using advanced …

This paper presents a study showing the optimization of the mass, direct (self-
manufacturing) costs, and energy life-cycle costs of composite floor structures composed of …

The paper presents an optimal design of single-story industrial steel building structures
based on the parametric mixed-integer non-linear programming (MINLP) optimization …

By definition, a remanufactured product must perform to the same (or higher) level as the
original product, and must therefore be issued a warranty of the same (or longer) duration …

In this article I show a firefly optimization based algorithm which helps to choose the
appropriate suppliers in a case of given order quantity of a given product. The developed …

Structural design and analysis is an important and time-consuming process, particularly at
the conceptual design stage. Decisions made at this stage can have an enormous effect on …

A detailed review of the dynamic search trajectory methods for global optimization is given.
In addition, a family of dynamic search trajectories methods that are created using numerical …

An overhead travelling crane structure of two doubly symmetric welded box beams is
designed for minimum cost. The rails are placed over the inner webs of box beams. The …

This paper presents the application of a refined version of the original Snyman–Fatti (SF)
global continuous optimization algorithm (Snyman and Fatti, J Optimiz Theory Appl 54: 121 …

We propose a modification of the homogenization method for computational model of an
axially symmetric cylindrical shell supported by rings having different stiffness properties …