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Structural Engineering and Mechanics Volume 50, Number 3, May10 2014 , pages 323-347 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/sem.2014.50.3.323 |
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Harmony search based, improved Particle Swarm Optimizer for minimum cost design of semi-rigid steel frames |
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Ali Hadidi and Amin Rafiee
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| Abstract | ||
| This paper proposes a Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm, which is improved by making use of the Harmony Search (HS) approach and called HS-PSO algorithm. A computer code is developed for optimal sizing design of non-linear steel frames with various semi-rigid and rigid beam-tocolumn connections based on the HS-PSO algorithm. The developed code selects suitable sections for beams and columns, from a standard set of steel sections such as American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) wide-flange W-shapes, such that the minimum total cost, which comprises total member plus connection costs, is obtained. Stress and displacement constraints of AISC-LRFD code together with the size constraints are imposed on the frame in the optimal design procedure. The nonlinear moment-rotation behavior of connections is modeled using the Frye-Morris polynomial model. Moreover, the P-A effects of beam-column members are taken into account in the non-linear structural analysis. Three benchmark design examples with several types of connections are presented and the results are compared with those of standard PSO and of other researches as well. The comparison shows that the proposed HS-PSO algorithm performs better both than the PSO and the Big Bang-Big Crunch (BB-BC) methods. | ||
| Key Words | ||
| harmony search; Particle Swarm Optimization; semi-rigid connections; steel frames; optimal sizing design | ||
| Address | ||
| Ali Hadidi and Amin Rafiee : Department of Civil Engineering, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran | ||