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KSCE JOURNAL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
Volume 20, Issue 6, Pages 2428-2438Publisher
KOREAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS-KSCE
DOI: 10.1007/s12205-015-1163-9
Keywords
concrete retaining wall; metaheuristics; firefly algorithm; harmony search; hybrid optimization
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- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Korea government (MSIP) [NRF-2013R1A2A1A01013886]
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This paper represents a novel hybrid optimization method that uses an improved firefly algorithm with a harmony search algorithm (IFA-HS), for optimizing the cost of reinforced concrete retaining walls. The IFA-HS is utilized to find an economical design adhering to ACI 318-05 provisions. Two design examples regarding retaining walls are optimized using the proposed hybrid method, and the optimization results confirm the validity and efficiency of the developed algorithm. The IFA-HS method offers improvements on the recently developed firefly algorithm. These improvements include utilizing the memory that contains information extracted online during a search, employing pitch adjusting operation of HS during firefly updates, and modifying the movement phase of the FA. Moreover, to decrease the computational effort of the IFA-HS, the upper bound strategy, which is a recently developed strategy for reducing the total number of structural analyses, is incorporated during the optimization process.
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