Structural reanalysis methods have been proposed to improve the efficiency of structural analysis. However, are typically only applicable their specific type modification. Since optimization process often involves multiple types modifications, it is necessary establish a criterion for selecting most suitable method each modification, aiming accelerate process. In this study, effects different m...

Assuming independence between failure modes makes system reliability calculation simple but it adds approximation error. Interestingly, error due to ignoring dependence can be negligible for a highly reliable system. This paper investigates the reasons and the factors affecting the error. Error in system probability of failure (PF) is small for high reliability when tail-dependence is not very ...

Vibration-based damage detection tools are frequently employed because of their advantages over other non-destructive techniques. This paper presents an improved Frequency Response Function (FRF) indicator for identification in complex structures. To verify the effectiveness indicator, different structures used, namely a 20-Bar Planar Truss (2D), 28-Bar Space (3D), 72-Bar Truss, and 600-bar Tru...

In the field of multiobjective optimization, important efforts have been made in recent years to generate global Pareto fronts uniformly distributed. A new multiobjective evolutionary algorithm, called ↗−MOGA, has been designed to converge towards ΘP , a reduced but well distributed representation of the Pareto set ΘP . The algorithm achieves good convergence and distribution of the Pareto fron...

This paper presents an artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm for structural optimization of planar and space trusses under stress, displacement and buckling constraints. In order to improve the performance of the classic ABC algorithm, modifications in neighborhood searching method, onlooker phase, and scout phase are proposed. Optimization of different typical truss structures is performed usi...

In this study a novel optimization method is presented, the so called mine blast algorithm (MBA). The fundamental concepts and ideas of MBA are derived from the explosion of mine bombs in real world. The efficiency of the proposed optimizer is tested via the optimization of several truss structures with discrete variables and its performance is compared with several well-known metaheuristic alg...

Evolution Strategies (ES) are a class of Evolutionary Algorithms based on Gaussian mutation and deterministic selection. Gaussian mutation captures pair-wise dependencies between the variables through a covariance matrix. Covariance Matrix Adaptation (CMA) is a method to update this covariance matrix. In this paper, the CMA-ES, which has found many applications in solving continuous optimizatio...