Automated design methods facilitate the study of the influence of design forms on the
buildings' behavior, and help compare the performance of alternative designs more …

Geometrically complex masonry structures (eg, arches, domes, vaults) are traditionally built
with scaffolding or falsework to provide stability during construction. The process of building …

In general, the design optimization of large-scale structural systems is an extremely
computationally expensive process. However, optimal structural analysis provides efficient …

As conventional approaches for calculating natural frequencies do not make full use of the
inherent symmetry of a structure, the rising degree of freedoms often leads to significant …

Numerical simulation of structural response is a challenging issue in earthquake
engineering and there has been remarkable progress in this area in the last decade …

Jellyfish Search (JS) is a recently developed population-based metaheuristic inspired by the
food-finding behavior of jellyfish in the ocean. The purpose of this paper is to propose a …

The optimal design of real-scale structures under frequency constraints is a crucial problem
for engineers. In this paper, linear analysis, as well as optimization by considering natural …

In this paper an efficient method is presented for the analysis of those structures which can
be converted to regular forms. The stiffness matrix for such regular structures can easily be …

Stochastic finite element method (StFEM) is a robust tool for uncertainty quantification of
engineering systems having random properties. Nevertheless, the matrices involved in this …

Purpose–In the analysis of some near‐regular structures one can solve the regular part
independently and then superimpose the effect of the additional part. For such models, the …