Composite materials are often utilised for their high strength to weight ratio, excellent corrosion resistance, etc. but are also characterised by variabilities and uncertainties in their mechanical properties owing to the material make-up, process and fabrication techniques. It is essential that modelling techniques continue to be developed to take account of these variabilities and uncertaint...

Purpose. The article proposes a method for determining the rational parameters of supporting structures made soil-cement piles on landslide-prone slopes. Methodology. To achieve this purpose, authors performed comparative calculations finite-element models layered slope with arrangement piles: vertical, located at an angle to vertical axis, combined concrete grillage, without different diameter...

The paper analyzes the performance of parallel global optimization algorithm, which is used to optimize grillage-type foundations. The parallel algorithm is obtained by using the automatic parallelization tool. We describe briefly the layer structure of the Master–Slave Template library and present a detailed mathematical formulation of the application problem. Experiments are done on the homog...

In this paper, a new simplified version of the Bayesian Approach to coordinate global optimization (BAcoor) is compared with the well-known algorithms. BAcoor is a method of multi-dimensional optimization by applying a sequence of one-dimensional global optimizers starting from the best points obtained by previous one-dimensional optimization. The globality of one-dimension search is controlled...