Metaheuristic applications in structures and infrastructures

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 t...

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Other Authors: Gandomi, Amir Hossein
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam, Netherlands London, UK Elsevier 2013
Series:Elsevier insights series
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:xx, 556 p. ill. 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references
ISBN:9780123983640