Recently, meta-heuristic algorithms have made remarkable progress in solving types of
complex and NP-hard problems. So that, most of this algorithms are inspired by swarm …

Structural engineering is focused on the safe and efficient design of infrastructure. Projects
can range in size and complexity, many requiring massive amounts of materials and …

Chameleon swarm algorithm (CSA) is a newly proposed swarm intelligence algorithm
inspired by the chameleon's foraging strategies of tracking, searching and attacking targets …

Safety is one key consideration in the monitoring of construction projects by engineers.
Accidents in the project can potentially cause issues, such as workers' injury and progress …

To handle the multiobjective optimization problems of truss-bar design, this paper introduces
a new metaheuristic multiobjective optimization algorithm. The proposed algorithm is based …

In view of the shortcomings such as slow search speed, low optimization precision and
premature convergence of artificial hummingbird algorithm, an enhanced artificial …

Although a large number of metaheuristic algorithms and their variants have been proposed
for many engineering optimization problems, no paradigms hybridized by differential …

Multiple objective structural optimization is a challenging problem in which suitable
optimization methods are needed to find optimal solutions. Therefore, to answer such …

In the real world, we often come across conditions like optimization of more than one
objective functions concurrently which are of conflicting nature and that makes the prospect …

The present investigation includes the performance enhancement concept of discrete meta-
heuristics (MHs) for truss design with concurrent size and topology optimization. The five …