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Performance-based seismic design of steel frames using ant colony optimization
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In this article, a performance-based optimal seismic design of frame structures is presented using the ant colony optimization (ACO) method, which leads to a significant improvement in consistency and computational efficiency compared to other evolutionary methods.About:
This article is published in Journal of Constructional Steel Research.The article was published on 2010-04-01. It has received 117 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Metaheuristic & Meta-optimization.read more
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A survey of non-gradient optimization methods in structural engineering
TL;DR: A review on non-gradient optimization methods with applications to structural engineering and some remarks on the value of using methods customized for a desired application are made.
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Charged system search for optimal design of frame structures
Ali Kaveh,Siamak Talatahari +1 more
TL;DR: A comparison between the characteristics of the CSS algorithm and other well-known meta-heuristics is performed to indicate their similarities and differences.
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Damage assessment of truss structures from changes in natural frequencies using ant colony optimization
TL;DR: The developed code is used to assess damages of truss like structures using first few natural frequencies and the outcomes show that the developed method can detect and estimate the amount of damages with satisfactory precision.
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Performance-based optimum seismic design of steel structures by a modified firefly algorithm and a new neural network
TL;DR: An efficient methodology, consisting of two computational strategies, is presented for performance-based optimum seismic design (PBOSD) of steel moment frames and a new neural network model termed as wavelet cascade-forward back-propagation is proposed to effectively predict the results of nonlinear pushover analysis during the optimization process.
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Performance based discrete topology optimization of steel braced frames by a new metaheuristic
TL;DR: A new metaheuristic algorithm, center of mass optimization (CMO), is proposed to deal with the performance-based discrete topology optimization (PBDTO) problem based on the physical concept ofcenter of mass for mass distribution in space.
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