Structural optimization of reinforced concrete structures (original) (raw)
2016, International Journal of Engineering Research and
The structural optimization plays a vital role in today's highly competitive industry, where there is continuous increase in customer demand for superior quality, better safety and affordable cost. The conventional ways of design development largely depends on excessive material usage, very high design marginshence, in turn ending up consuming more material into the structures, buildings. Since last couple of decades, computational power is becoming more efficient and affordable to everyone. This availability of high capacity computational power gave of designer the opportunity for evaluating multiple options during the development phase itself, using finite element analysis methods. Also, the efforts of the researchers helped our field with many innovative and matured algorithms for optimizing the multiple design variables considering given constraints, scenarios at the same time. The combination of high power computation with these algorithms is giving the designers limitless opportunities for managing the development more effectively and efficiently. This paper discusses various optimization techniques and apply them to real world cases like reinforced concrete structures in virtual environment. The study includes survey of structural optimization principles, procedures, software tools available for structural design & analysis. Further, it discusses about the optimization of multi-storey reinforced concrete structures (RCC) building structure using structural analysis software like STAAD-PRO along with modern optimization tools like MINITAB and Evolutionary Algorithm.
Loading Preview
Sorry, preview is currently unavailable. You can download the paper by clicking the button above.