The optimization design of truss based on Ant Colony optimal Algorithm

Author

Chen, Xiaojia ; Liu, Shuguang ; He, Shaohong

Author_Institution

Sch. of Transp., Wuhan Univ. of Technol., Wuhan, China

Volume

2

fYear

2010

fDate

10-12 Aug. 2010

Firstpage

720

Lastpage

723

Abstract

An optimization method for a truss structure design using the Ant Colony Algorithm is presented in this paper. With the constraints of the truss stiffness, strength, allowing displacement and other design conditions, the Ant Colony Algorithm is implanted to the optimizing process of the truss structure using the program languages of MATLAB. Two typical trusses are used as examples to demonstrate the effectiveness of the method and the parameters about the Ant Colony Algorithm are discussed. The numerical analysis shows that the Ant Colony Algorithm has a satisfactory result in the truss optimization.

Keywords

design engineering; elastic constants; mathematics computing; mechanical strength; numerical analysis; optimisation; structural engineering; Matlab; ant colony optimal algorithm; optimization design; stiffness; structural strength; truss structural design; Algorithm design and analysis; Classification algorithms; MATLAB; Mathematical model; Optimization; Probability; Stress; Ant Colony Algorithm; MATLAB; optimization; truss structure;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Natural Computation (ICNC), 2010 Sixth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Yantai, Shandong

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5958-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICNC.2010.5583282

Filename

5583282