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Showing papers in "Advances in Engineering Software in 2017"


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TL;DR: The qualitative and quantitative results prove the efficiency of SSA and MSSA and demonstrate the merits of the algorithms proposed in solving real-world problems with difficult and unknown search spaces.

3,027 citations


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TL;DR: The proposed grasshopper optimisation algorithm is able to provide superior results compared to well-known and recent algorithms in the literature and the results of the real applications prove the merits of GOA in solving real problems with unknown search spaces.

1,796 citations


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TL;DR: The main concept behind this algorithm is the social relationship between spotted hyenas and their collaborative behavior and it is revealed that the proposed algorithm performs better than the other competitive metaheuristic algorithms.

676 citations


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TL;DR: A new optimization algorithm based on Newton's law of cooling, which will be called Thermal Exchange Optimization algorithm, is developed and examined by some mathematical functions and four mechanical benchmark problems.

384 citations


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TL;DR: A suitable piece of software is presented to connect Abaqus, a sophisticated finite element package, with Matlab, the most comprehensive program for mathematical analysis, and its potential to create and train neural networks is used to identify damage parameters through a hybrid experimental–numerical scheme.

137 citations


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TL;DR: The failure behavior of pipelines with interacting corrosion defects was studied using a finite element method, and a solution was proposed to predict burst pressure using an artificial neural network to prove its applicability and efficiency.

74 citations


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TL;DR: It is found that ANNs can predict adequately the seismic damage state of r/c buildings if at least 5 seismic parameters are used as inputs.

71 citations


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TL;DR: An integrated web-based GIS platform for the safe management and risk assessment of complex port areas exposed to intense wind actions is developed, suitable for applications to any port reality worldwide and, even more, to any complex structural and infrastructural system under wind actions.

64 citations


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TL;DR: The results show that the bridge information modeling framework can potentially facilitate the integration of information involved in bridge monitoring applications, and effectively support and provide services to retrieve and utilize the information.

56 citations


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TL;DR: The proposed models correlate the concrete true-triaxial strength to mix design parameters and principal stresses, needless of conducting any time-consuming laboratory experiments and demonstrate superior performance to the other existing empirical and analytical models.

55 citations


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TL;DR: The obtained results indicate that the proposed method not only successfully detects the location and severity of multi-damage cases in the plate structures, but also show the better efficiency in term of computational cost.

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TL;DR: In this article, modified schemes are proposed for preventing a grey wolf optimizer (GWO) from premature exploration and convergence on optimization problems, and three novel strategies are developed to improve the performance of existing GWO.

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TL;DR: SelEQ, a fully integrated framework that implements state-of-the art procedures for ground motion record selection and scaling, makes use of the Adaptive Harmony Search meta-heuristic optimization algorithm in order to significantly minimize computational cost and analysis time, whilst still meeting the imposed selection constraints.

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TL;DR: In this article, shot size and impact velocity distributions were evaluated and modelled for a specific industrial peening treatment with a sparse shot stream, using experimental data on shot and impact dimple sizes combined with finite element modelling and Monte Carlo simulations.

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TL;DR: A data driven method to predict machining quality of product by ANFIS model, which the inputs are CNC machining parameters and the outputs are two performance indexes (milling accuracy and surface quality), which can help user to achieve the required product quality and machining productivity.

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TL;DR: Two advanced optimization approaches to solving a reliability-based design problem are presented, one based on the utilization of an artificial neural network and a small-sample simulation technique and the other using a double-loop optimization method based on small- sample simulation.

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TL;DR: The computation time on a PC reduces to several seconds with near-optimal initial guess in the NLP solving process, making receding horizon replanning possible via this centralized planner.

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TL;DR: The proposed energy-based homogenization procedure utilizes the sensitivity filter technique and a modified optimal algorithm is proposed to evolve the microstructure of lattice materials with distinct topological boundaries and shows that the shear stiffness and bearing properties of the optimized lattice structure is better than that of the traditional honeycomb sandwich structure.

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TL;DR: It is possible now to eliminate the non-conformal interface between the two rotor domains thereby producing a single domain structured grid for the rotors, while still maintaining the fully hexahedral cell topology.

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TL;DR: An efficient two-stage optimization approach to the design of steel-concrete composite I-girder bridges by using a finite element model (FEM) to locate the global optimum region and provide a starting point to the local search.

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TL;DR: A well-suited strategy for High Performance Computing (HPC) of density-based topology optimization using Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) takes advantage of Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) architectures to overcome the computationally demanding procedures ofdensity- based topology design, both in terms of memory consumption and processing time.

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TL;DR: The grids of Rotor to Casing and Casing to Rotor type are tested for performance calculation of a dry air screw compressor using ANSYS CFX solver and the results have been compared with measurements.

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TL;DR: A mode recognition technique based on the volume ratio of vibration-free region to the entire structure is proposed to identify localized mode that conventionally arises due to low-density region during the optimization of structural topology optimization.

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TL;DR: A model-based optimization framework is proposed to integrate essential components for solving road traffic control problems in general and shows superior performance than the ordinary genetic algorithm because of the reduced number of fitness function evaluations in engineering applications.

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TL;DR: Comparisons of three global surrogate modeling techniques in the solution of structural reliability problems show that the three techniques explored herein are reliable tools for approximating the response of complex mechanical models.

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TL;DR: The IGA based on Bzier extraction of NURBS can be embedded in existing FEM codes, and more importantly, as have been shown in literature that higher accuracy over traditional FEM can be gained.

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TL;DR: Coupled heat and moisture transport in highly perforated bricks is indispensable part of design of energy efficient buildings and parallelization is based on the Schur complement method which is able to deal with nonsymmetric systems.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed an analytical grid generation based on the user defined nodal displacement which discretizes the moving and deforming fluid domain of the sliding vane machine and ensures conservation of intrinsic quantities by maintaining the cell connectivity and structure.

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TL;DR: This paper illustrates a computational strategy to deal with both issues that may help researchers establish sets of RRD parameters for other important shell systems with greater confidence and accuracy.

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TL;DR: A multi-objective decision-making model based on condition-based-maintenance concentrated on both minimizing the maintenance cost and maximizing the availability of a fleet is established for an aircraft fleet and a maintenance decision- making support system (MDMSS) is developed based on the proposed model.