RECENT ADVANCES IN STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION

Recent Advances in Structural Optimization

In this paper we present the main directions of research in Structural Convex Optimization. In this field, we use additional information on the structure of specific problem instances for accelerating standard Black-Box methods. We show that the proper use of problem structure can provably accelerate these methods by the order of magnitudes. As examples, we consider polynomialtime interior-poin...

Recent advances in reliability-based structural optimization under earthquake loading

1. Abstract In this paper a robust and efficient methodology is presented for treating large-scale reliability-based, structural optimization problems under seismic loads using the pushover analysis method. The optimization problem is solved with the Evolution Strategies method, while the reliability analysis is carried out with the Monte Carlo simulation method. In order to reduce the excessiv...

Advances in Structural Optimization

1. SUMMARY The objective of this study is to investigate the efficiency of various Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs), such as Evolution Strategies (ESs) and Genetic Algorithms (GAs), when applied to large-scale sizing optimization problems. ESs and GAs imitate biological evolution in nature and combine the concept of artificial survival of the fittest with evolutionary operators to form a robust se...

Recent Advances in Combinatorial Optimization

1College of Science, East China Institute of Technology, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330013, China 2Department of Information Management, National Formosa University, Yun-Lin 632, Taiwan 3School of Economics & Management, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China 4Laboratoire IBISC, Université d’Evry-Val d’Essone, 40 rue Pelvoux, 91001 Evry, France 5LCOMS EA7306, Université de Lorraine, Ile du Saulcy, 57...

Recent Advances in Global Optimization