Metaheuristics And Optimization In Civil Engineering

Author : Xin-She Yang,Gebrail Bekdaş,Sinan Melih Nigdeli
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319262451

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Metaheuristics and Optimization in Civil Engineering by Xin-She Yang,Gebrail Bekdaş,Sinan Melih Nigdeli Pdf

This timely book deals with a current topic, i.e. the applications of metaheuristic algorithms, with a primary focus on optimization problems in civil engineering. The first chapter offers a concise overview of different kinds of metaheuristic algorithms, explaining their advantages in solving complex engineering problems that cannot be effectively tackled by traditional methods, and citing the most important works for further reading. The remaining chapters report on advanced studies on the applications of certain metaheuristic algorithms to specific engineering problems. Genetic algorithm, bat algorithm, cuckoo search, harmony search and simulated annealing are just some of the methods presented and discussed step by step in real-application contexts, in which they are often used in combination with each other. Thanks to its synthetic yet meticulous and practice-oriented approach, the book is a perfect guide for graduate students, researchers and professionals willing to applying metaheuristic algorithms in civil engineering and other related engineering fields, such as mechanical, transport and geotechnical engineering. It is also a valuable aid for both lectures and advanced engineering students.

Author : A. Kaveh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319480121

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Applications of Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms in Civil Engineering by A. Kaveh Pdf

The book presents recently developed efficient metaheuristic optimization algorithms and their applications for solving various optimization problems in civil engineering. The concepts can also be used for optimizing problems in mechanical and electrical engineering.

Author : Ali Kaveh,Armin Dadras Eslamlou
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030454739

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Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms in Civil Engineering: New Applications by Ali Kaveh,Armin Dadras Eslamlou Pdf

This book discusses the application of metaheuristic algorithms in a number of important optimization problems in civil engineering. Advances in civil engineering technologies require greater accuracy, efficiency and speed in terms of the analysis and design of the corresponding systems. As such, it is not surprising that novel methods have been developed for the optimal design of real-world systems and models with complex configurations and large numbers of elements. This book is intended for scientists, engineers and students wishing to explore the potential of newly developed metaheuristics in practical problems. It presents concepts that are not only applicable to civil engineering problems, but can also used for optimizing problems related to mechanical, electrical, and industrial engineering. It is an essential resource for civil, mechanical and electrical engineers who use optimization methods for design, as well as for students and researchers interested in structural optimization.

Author : Xin-She Yang,Amir Hossein Gandomi,Siamak Talatahari,Amir Hossein Alavi
Publisher : Newnes
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780123983176

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Metaheuristics in Water, Geotechnical and Transport Engineering by Xin-She Yang,Amir Hossein Gandomi,Siamak Talatahari,Amir Hossein Alavi Pdf

Due to an ever-decreasing supply in raw materials and stringent constraints on conventional energy sources, demand for lightweight, efficient and low cost structures has become crucially important in modern engineering design. This requires engineers to search for optimal and robust design options to address design problems that are often large in scale and highly nonlinear, making finding solutions challenging. In the past two decades, metaheuristic algorithms have shown promising power, efficiency and versatility in solving these difficult optimization problems. This book examines the latest developments of metaheuristics and their applications in water, geotechnical and transport engineering offering practical case studies as examples to demonstrate real world applications. Topics cover a range of areas within engineering, including reviews of optimization algorithms, artificial intelligence, cuckoo search, genetic programming, neural networks, multivariate adaptive regression, swarm intelligence, genetic algorithms, ant colony optimization, evolutionary multiobjective optimization with diverse applications in engineering such as behavior of materials, geotechnical design, flood control, water distribution and signal networks. This book can serve as a supplementary text for design courses and computation in engineering as well as a reference for researchers and engineers in metaheursitics, optimization in civil engineering and computational intelligence. Provides detailed descriptions of all major metaheuristic algorithms with a focus on practical implementation Develops new hybrid and advanced methods suitable for civil engineering problems at all levels Appropriate for researchers and advanced students to help to develop their work

Author : Xin-She Yang,Siamak Talatahari,Amir Hossein Alavi
Publisher : Newnes
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780123983794

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Metaheuristic Applications in Structures and Infrastructures by Xin-She Yang,Siamak Talatahari,Amir Hossein Alavi Pdf

Due to an ever-decreasing supply in raw materials and stringent constraints on conventional energy sources, demand for lightweight, efficient and low-cost structures has become crucially important in modern engineering design. This requires engineers to search for optimal and robust design options to address design problems that are commonly large in scale and highly nonlinear, making finding solutions challenging. In the past two decades, metaheuristic algorithms have shown promising power, efficiency and versatility in solving these difficult optimization problems. This book examines the latest developments of metaheuristics and their applications in structural engineering, construction engineering and earthquake engineering, offering practical case studies as examples to demonstrate real-world applications. Topics cover a range of areas within engineering, including big bang-big crunch approach, genetic algorithms, genetic programming, harmony search, swarm intelligence and some other metaheuristic methods. Case studies include structural identification, vibration analysis and control, topology optimization, transport infrastructure design, design of reinforced concrete, performance-based design of structures and smart pavement management. With its wide range of everyday problems and solutions, Metaheursitic Applications in Structures and Infrastructures can serve as a supplementary text for design courses and computation in engineering as well as a reference for researchers and engineers in metaheuristics, optimization in civil engineering and computational intelligence. Review of the latest development of metaheuristics in engineering. Detailed algorithm descriptions with focus on practical implementation. Uses practical case studies as examples and applications.

Author : Mohammed Ghasem Sahab,Vassili V. Toropov,Amir Hossein Gandomi
Publisher : Elsevier Inc. Chapters
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780128066256

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Metaheuristic Applications in Structures and Infrastructures by Mohammed Ghasem Sahab,Vassili V. Toropov,Amir Hossein Gandomi Pdf

Author : Fouad Bennis,Rajib Kumar Bhattacharjya
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030264581

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Nature-Inspired Methods for Metaheuristics Optimization by Fouad Bennis,Rajib Kumar Bhattacharjya Pdf

This book gathers together a set of chapters covering recent development in optimization methods that are inspired by nature. The first group of chapters describes in detail different meta-heuristic algorithms, and shows their applicability using some test or real-world problems. The second part of the book is especially focused on advanced applications and case studies. They span different engineering fields, including mechanical, electrical and civil engineering, and earth/environmental science, and covers topics such as robotics, water management, process optimization, among others. The book covers both basic concepts and advanced issues, offering a timely introduction to nature-inspired optimization method for newcomers and students, and a source of inspiration as well as important practical insights to engineers and researchers.

Author : Amir Hossein Gandomi,Xin-She Yang,Siamak Talatahari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0323282717

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Metaheuristic Applications in Structures and Infrastructures by Amir Hossein Gandomi,Xin-She Yang,Siamak Talatahari Pdf

Due to an ever-decreasing supply in raw materials and stringent constraints on conventional energy sources, demand for lightweight, efficient and low-cost structures has become crucially important in modern engineering design. This requires engineers to search for optimal and robust design options to address design problems that are commonly large in scale and highly nonlinear, making finding solutions challenging. In the past two decades, metaheuristic algorithms have shown promising power, efficiency and versatility in solving these difficult optimization problems. This book examines the latest developments of metaheuristics and their applications in structural engineering, construction engineering and earthquake engineering, offering practical case studies as examples to demonstrate real-world applications. Topics cover a range of areas within engineering, including big bang-big crunch approach, genetic algorithms, genetic programming, harmony search, swarm intelligence and some other metaheuristic methods. Case studies include structural identification, vibration analysis and control, topology optimization, transport infrastructure design, design of reinforced concrete, performance-based design of structures and smart pavement management. With its wide range of everyday problems and solutions, Metaheursitic Applications in Structures and Infrastructures can serve as a supplementary text for design courses and computation in engineering as well as a reference for researchers and engineers in metaheuristics, optimization in civil engineering and computational intelligence. Review of the latest development of metaheuristics in engineering. Detailed algorithm descriptions with focus on practical implementation. Uses practical case studies as examples and applications.

Author : Zong Woo Geem
Publisher : Archives contemporaines
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Environmental engineering
ISBN : 9782813000309

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Optimization in Civil & Environmental Engineering by Zong Woo Geem Pdf

Author : Gebrail Bekdaş,Sinan Melih Nigdeli
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031347283

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Hybrid Metaheuristics in Structural Engineering by Gebrail Bekdaş,Sinan Melih Nigdeli Pdf

From the start of life, people used their brains to make something better in design in ordinary works. Due to that, metaheuristics are essential to living things, and several inspirations from life have been used in the generation of new algorithms. These algorithms have unique features, but the usage of different features of different algorithms may give more effective optimum results in means of precision in optimum results, computational effort, and convergence. This book is a timely book to summarize the latest developments in the optimization of structural engineering systems covering all classical approaches and new trends including hybrids metaheuristic algorithms. Also, artificial intelligence and machine learning methods are included to predict optimum results by skipping long optimization processes. The main objective of this book is to introduce the fundamentals and current development of methods and their applications in structural engineering.

Author : Kaushik Kumar,J. Paulo Davim
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000546804

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Optimization Using Evolutionary Algorithms and Metaheuristics by Kaushik Kumar,J. Paulo Davim Pdf

Metaheuristic optimization is a higher-level procedure or heuristic designed to find, generate, or select a heuristic (partial search algorithm) that may provide a sufficiently good solution to an optimization problem, especially with incomplete or imperfect information or limited computation capacity. This is usually applied when two or more objectives are to be optimized simultaneously. This book is presented with two major objectives. Firstly, it features chapters by eminent researchers in the field providing the readers about the current status of the subject. Secondly, algorithm-based optimization or advanced optimization techniques, which are applied to mostly non-engineering problems, are applied to engineering problems. This book will also serve as an aid to both research and industry. Usage of these methodologies would enable the improvement in engineering and manufacturing technology and support an organization in this era of low product life cycle. Features: Covers the application of recent and new algorithms Focuses on the development aspects such as including surrogate modeling, parallelization, game theory, and hybridization Presents the advances of engineering applications for both single-objective and multi-objective optimization problems Offers recent developments from a variety of engineering fields Discusses Optimization using Evolutionary Algorithms and Metaheuristics applications in engineering

Author : Jorge Magalhães-Mendes,David Greiner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319204062

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Evolutionary Algorithms and Metaheuristics in Civil Engineering and Construction Management by Jorge Magalhães-Mendes,David Greiner Pdf

This book focuses on civil and structural engineering and construction management applications. The contributions constitute modified, extended and improved versions of research presented at the minisymposium organized by the editors at the ECCOMAS conference on this topic in Barcelona 2014.

Author : Sinan Melih Nigdeli,Gebrail Bekdaş,Aylin Ece Kayabekir,Melda Yucel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030618483

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Advances in Structural Engineering—Optimization by Sinan Melih Nigdeli,Gebrail Bekdaş,Aylin Ece Kayabekir,Melda Yucel Pdf

This book is an up-to-date source for computation applications of optimization, prediction via artificial intelligence methods, and evaluation of metaheuristic algorithm with different structural applications. As the current interest of researcher, metaheuristic algorithms are a high interest topic area since advance and non-optimized problems via mathematical methods are challenged by the development of advance and modified algorithms. The artificial intelligence (AI) area is also important in predicting optimum results by skipping long iterative optimization processes. The machine learning used in generation of AI models also needs optimum results of metaheuristic-based approaches. This book is a great source to researcher, graduate students, and bachelor students who gain project about structural optimization. Differently from the academic use, the chapter that emphasizes different scopes and methods can take the interest and help engineer working in design and production of structural engineering projects.

Author : Yusuf Cengiz Toklu,Gebrail Bekdas,Sinan Melih Nigdeli
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781119849070

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Metaheuristics for Structural Design and Analysis by Yusuf Cengiz Toklu,Gebrail Bekdas,Sinan Melih Nigdeli Pdf

Metaheuristics for Structural Design and Analysis discusses general properties and types of metaheuristic techniques, basic principles of topology, shape and size optimization of structures, and applications of metaheuristic algorithms in solving structural design problems. Analysis of structures using metaheuristic algorithms is also discussed. Comparisons are made with classical methods and modern computational methods through metaheuristic algorithms. The book is designed for senior structural engineering students, graduate students, academicians and practitioners.

Author : Ali Kaveh,Ataollah Zaerreza
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031255731

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Structural Optimization Using Shuffled Shepherd Meta-Heuristic Algorithm by Ali Kaveh,Ataollah Zaerreza Pdf

This book presents the so-called Shuffled Shepherd Optimization Algorithm (SSOA), a recently developed meta-heuristic algorithm by authors. There is always limitations on the resources to be used in the construction. Some of the resources used in the buildings are also detrimental to the environment. For example, the cement utilized in making concrete emits carbon dioxide, which contributes to the global warming. Hence, the engineers should employ resources efficiently and avoid the waste. In the traditional optimal design methods, the number of trials and errors used by the designer is limited, so there is no guarantee that the optimal design can be found for structures. Hence, the deigning method should be changed, and the computational algorithms should be employed in the optimum design problems. The gradient-based method and meta-heuristic algorithms are the two different types of methods used to find the optimal solution. The gradient-based methods require gradient information. Also, these can easily be trapped in the local optima in the nonlinear and complex problems. Therefore, to overcome these issues, meta-heuristic algorithms are developed. These algorithms are simple and can get out of the local optimum by easy means. However, a single meta-heuristic algorithm cannot find the optimum results in all types of optimization problems. Thus, civil engineers develop different meta-heuristic algorithms for their optimization problems. Different applications of the SSOA are provided. The simplified and enhanced versions of the SSOA are also developed and efficiently applied to various optimization problems in structures. Another special feature of this book consists of the use of graph theoretical force method as analysis tool, in place of traditional displacement approach. This has reduced the computational time to a great extent, especially for those structures having smaller DSI compared to the DKI. New framework is also developed for reliability-based design of frame structures. The algorithms are clearly stated such that they can simply be implemented and utilized in practice and research.