Cost Optimization of Structures
Hojjat Adeli
Preference :
During the past 45 years a significant amount of research has been published in the area of structural optimization. The great majority of these papers deal with the minimization of the weight of the structure. While weight of a structure constitutes a significant part of the cost, a minimum weight design is not necessarily the minimum cost design. Only a small fraction of the papers published on structural optimization deal with the cost optimization problem. Most of these papers deal with structural elements such as beams. Few journal papers have been published on cost optimization of realistic three-dimensional structures. As such, there is a need to perform research on cost optimization of realistic three-dimensional structures, especially large structures with hundreds of members where optimization can result in substantial savings. The results of such research efforts will be of great value to practicing engineers.
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Content :
- Introduction
- Evolutionary Computing and the Genetic Algorithm
- Cost Optimization of Composite Floors
- Fuzzy Genetic Algorithm for Optimization of Steel Structures
- Fuzzy Discrete Multi-criteria Cost Optimization of Steel Structures
- Parallel Computing
- Parallel Fuzzy Genetic Algorithms for Cost Optimization of Large Steel Structures
- Life-Cycle Cost Optimization of Steel Structures
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