Authors: Mais Aldwaik Hojjat Adeli
Publish Date: 2014/10/03
Volume: 50, Issue: 6, Pages: 899-919
Abstract
This paper presents a review of interesting work on optimization of highrise building structures with a focus on largescale and reallife structures A number of interesting projects with an eye on practicality are reviewed a few involving practicing designers of highrise building structures A review of literature indicates that performing a formal optimization can result in cost savings in the range of 5 to 15 which can be especially significant in design of highrise and superhighhrise building structures Since optimization of highrise building structures is a largescale optimization problem the choice of the optimization approach is an important one It should be one that is not entrapped in a local optimum solution and is stable for largescale optimization subjected to discontinuous constraints of commonlyused design codes The naturebased optimization approaches such as the neural dynamics model of Adeli and Park and genetic algorithms appear to be the preferred choice
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