Composite laminates have found wide-ranging applications in various areas of structural,
marine and aerospace industries. Their design and optimization is a challenging task due to …

Optimization of blend extents for materials like cement, contain numerous constituents and
are regularly dependent upon a few exhibition, limitation, can be troublesome and tedious …

Abstract A Hybrid Whale Optimization Algorithm (HWOA) is proposed to optimize the
stacking sequence of arbitrary quadrilateral composite plates. By introducing an adversarial …

In this paper, a multivariate improved sparrow search algorithm (MCSSA) is proposed for
maximizing the fundamental frequency of composite laminated cylindrical shells and …

In this paper a new hybrid glowworm swarm algorithm (SAGSO) for solving structural
optimization problems is presented. The structure proposed to be optimized here is a simply …

Optimizing composite structures to exploit their maximum potential is a realistic application
with promising returns. In this research, simultaneous maximization of the fundamental …

In the real world, there are many problems in which it is desirable to optimize one or more
objective functions at the same time. These are known as single and multi-objective …

In this article, a high-fidelity structural optimization framework is developed by combining the
high-accuracy of finite element method with iterative improvement capability of metaheuristic …

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

Plate structures are the integral parts of any maritime engineering platform. With the recent
focus on composite structures, the need for optimizing their design and functionality has now …