Evolutionary Algorithms and Metaheuristics in Civil Engineering and Construction Management

✍ Scribed by Jorge Magalhães-Mendes, David Greiner (eds.)

Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 132
Series: Computational Methods in Applied Sciences 39
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This book focuses on civil and structural engineering and construction management applications. The contributions constitute modified, extended and improved versions of research presented at the minisymposium organized by the editors at the ECCOMAS conference on this topic in Barcelona 2014.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
On-line Metamodel-Assisted Optimization with Mixed Variables....Pages 1-15
Comparing the Fully Stressed Design and the Minimum Constrained Weight Solutions in Truss Structures....Pages 17-32
Multiobjective Approach for Time-Cost Optimization Using a Multi-mode Hybrid Genetic Algorithm....Pages 33-49
On Efficiency Increase of Evolutionary Algorithms for Large Non-linear Constrained Optimization Problems with Applications to Mechanics....Pages 51-65
Lightweight Optimization for Additive Manufacturing Parts Based on Genetic Algorithms, Metamodels and Finite Element Analysis....Pages 67-82
Calibration of Dynamic Models of Railway Bridges Based on Genetic Algorithms....Pages 83-103
A Procedure for Improving the Acoustic Efficiency of Top-Edge Devices on Noise Barriers: An Application of Genetic Algorithms and Boundary Elements....Pages 105-125
Back Matter....Pages 127-127

✦ Subjects

Civil Engineering; Structural Mechanics; Computational Intelligence

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Optimization Using Evolutionary Algorith

📁 Optimization Using Evolutionary Algorithms and Metaheuristics: Applications in Engineering (Science, Technology, and Management)

✍ Kaushik Kumar (editor), J. Paulo Davim (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2019 🏛 CRC Press 🌐 English

Metaheuristic optimization is a higher-level procedure or heuristic designed to find, generate, or select a heuristic (partial search algorithm) that may provide a sufficiently good solution to an optimization problem, especially with incomplete or imperfect information or limited computation cap

Optimization Using Evolutionary Algorith

📁 Optimization Using Evolutionary Algorithms and Metaheuristics-Applications in Engineering

✍ Kaushik Kumar (Editor); J. Paulo Davim (Editor) 📂 Library 📅 2019 🏛 CRC Press

Metaheuristic and Evolutionary Computati

📁 Metaheuristic and Evolutionary Computation: Algorithms and Applications

✍ Hasmat Malik, Atif Iqbal, Puneet Joshi, Sanjay Agrawal, Farhad Ilahi Bakhsh 📂 Library 📅 2021 🏛 Springer Singapore;Springer 🌐 English

This book addresses the principles and applications of metaheuristic approaches in engineering and related fields. The first part covers metaheuristics tools and techniques such as ant colony optimization and Tabu search, and their applications to several classes of optimization problems. In t

Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms in

📁 Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms in Civil Engineering: New Applications

✍ Ali Kaveh, Armin Dadras Eslamlou 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 Springer 🌐 English

<div>This book discusses the application of metaheuristic algorithms in a number of important optimization problems in civil engineering. Advances in civil engineering technologies require greater accuracy, efficiency and speed in terms of the analysis and design of the corresponding systems. As suc

Applications of Metaheuristic Optimizati

📁 Applications of Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms in Civil Engineering

✍ A. Kaveh 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 Springer 🌐 English

The book presents recently developed efficient metaheuristic optimization algorithms and their applications for solving various optimization problems in civil engineering. The concepts can also be used for optimizing problems in mechanical and electrical engineering.

Applications of Metaheuristic Optimizati

📁 Applications of Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms in Civil Engineering

✍ A. Kaveh (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 Springer International Publishing 🌐 English

The book presents recently developed efficient metaheuristic optimization algorithms and their applications for solving various optimization problems in civil engineering. The concepts can also be used for optimizing problems in mechanical and electrical engineering.