Optimal design of structures for earthquake loads by a hybrid RBF-BPSO method |
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| Authors: | Eysa Salajegheh Saeed Gholizadeh Mohsen Khatibinia |
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| Institution: | Department of Civil Engineering, University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran |
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| Abstract: | The optimal seismic design of structures requires that time history analyses (THA) be carried out repeatedly. This makes the optimal design process inefficient, in particular, if an evolutionary algorithm is used. To reduce the overall time required for structural optimization, two artificial intelligence strategies are employed. In the first strategy, radial basis function (RBF) neural networks are used to predict the time history responses of structures in the optimization flow. In the second strategy, a binary particle swarm optimization (BPSO) is used to find the optimum design. Combining the RBF and BPSO, a hybrid RBF-BPSO optimization method is proposed in this paper, which achieves fast optimization with high computational performance. Two examples are presented and compared to determine the optimal weight of structures under earthquake loadings using both exact and approximate analyses. The numerical results demonstrate the computational advantages and effectiveness of the proposed hybrid RBF-BPSO optimization method for the seismic design of structures. |
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| Keywords: | earthquake optimization binary particle swarm neural networks radial basis function |
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