Optimum design of high-rise steel buildings using an evolution strategy integrated parallel algorithm

Computers and Structures

Volumn 89, Issue 21-22, 2011, Pages 2037-2051

  Hasancebi O ^a   Bahcecioglu T ^a   Kurc O ^a   Saka, M P ^b  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAHRAIN   (Bahrain)

Author keywords

Evolution strategy; High rise steel buildings; Metaheuristic search techniques; Parallel computing; Structural optimization

Indexed keywords

COST-EFFICIENCY; DESIGN PROCESS; EVOLUTION STRATEGIES; HIGH-RISE STEEL BUILDINGS; MASTER-SLAVE; METAHEURISTIC SEARCH TECHNIQUES; MINIMUM WEIGHT; MODEL-BASED OPC; MULTITASKING ENVIRONMENTS; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURES; OPTIMUM DESIGNS; PARALLEL COMPUTING SYSTEM; PARALLEL SOLUTIONS; PARALLELIZATIONS; STEEL BUILDINGS; STEEL SPACE FRAME;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COOLING SYSTEMS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; STRUCTURAL FRAMES; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 80052934817     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2011.05.019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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