Synopses & Reviews
Civil engineering structures such as buildings, bridges, stadiums, and offshore structures play an import role in our daily life. However, constructing these structures requires lots of budget. Thus, how to cost-efficiently design structures satisfying all required design constraints is an important factor to structural engineers. Traditionally, mathematical gradient-based optimal techniques have been applied to the design of optimal structures. While, many practical engineering optimal problems are very complex and hard to solve by traditional method. In the past few decades, swarm intelligence algorithms, which were inspired by the social behaviour of natural animals such as fish schooling and bird flocking, were developed
Synopsis
Written by leading experts, this book contains recent research on group search optimization with applications in structural design. It details the latest research work related with particle swarm optimizer algorithm and group search optimizer algorithm.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Introduction of swarm intelligent algorithms.-
Chapter 2
Application of particle swarm optimization algorithm to engineering structures.-
Chapter 3
Optimum design of structures with heuristic particle swarm optimization algorithm
.-Chapter 4
Optimum design of structures with group search optimizer algorithm
.-Chapter 5
Improvements and applications of group search optimizer in structural optimal design
.-Chapter 6
Optimum design of structures with quick group search optimization algorithm
.-Chapter 7
Group search optimizer and its applications on multi-objective structural optimal design
.-Chapter 8
Prospecting