• Title of article

    OPTIMUM DESIGN OF PLATE STRUCTURES USING BINARY PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION

  • Author/Authors

    Farhmand Azar, B. university of tabriz - Department of Civil Engineering, تبريز, ايران , Hadidi, A. university of tabriz - Department of Civil Engineering, تبريز, ايران , Gholipour, L. university of tabriz - Department of Civil Engineering, تبريز, ايران

  • From page
    477
  • To page
    486
  • Abstract
    Particle swarm optimization is an efficient population based algorithm used to solve real valued and nonlinear continuous optimization problems. To resolve binary optimization problems with PSO, binary particle swarm optimization (BPSO) has been developed. In this paper, optimum design of plates using BPSO is presented. The objective function aims at finding the optimum weight of plates with the nodal displacements selected as constraints. Numerical examples show that BPSO can be a suitable algorithm to solve optimization problems in binary search space.
  • Keywords
    Optimum design , plate structures , particle swarm optimization
  • Journal title
    Asian Journal of Civil Engineering (Building and Housing)
  • Journal title
    Asian Journal of Civil Engineering (Building and Housing)
  • Record number

    2546873