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  • MakaleAçık Erişim2021Scopus SJRQ1
    Discrete sizing design of steel truss bridges through teaching-learning-based and biogeography-based optimization algorithms involving dynamic constraints

    Artar, Musa; Carbas, Serdar

    In this paper, Teaching-Learning Based Optimization (TLBO) and Biogeography-Based Optimization (BBO) algorithms are presented to examine the optimum discrete sizing design of steel truss steel bridges for minimizing the structural weights. Both proposed nature-inspired metaheuristic optimization algorithms are encoded in MATLAB with integration of a structural analysis program (SAP2000) via open application programming interface (OAPI). At the end, optimal steel profiles are selected from available discrete section lists by satisfying the structural restrictions, such as stress and displacement, involved by American Institute of Steel Construction-Allowable Stress Design (AISC-ASD). Additional to these, optimum discrete sizing design process is performed for the cases with and without dynamic constraints, which are adopted from natural periods of the bridge structures with respect to the mode shapes. The algorithmic performance of the proposed algorithms outperforms on both planar and spatial steel truss bridges. To prove this obtained optimal solutions are compared with previously reported optimum designs attaining via different metaheuristics. The final optimum discrete sizing designs of the steel truss bridges reveal that the proposed TLBO and BBO algorithms can easily be applied to discrete nonlinear programming problems.

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  • MakaleYalnız künye2017Scopus SJRQ2
    Optimum design of steel bridges including corrosion effect using TLBO

    Artar, Musa; Catar, Recep; Daloglu, Ayse T.

    This study presents optimum design of plane steel bridges considering corrosion effect by using teaching-learning based optimization (TLBO) method. Optimum solutions of three different bridge problems are linearly carried out including and excluding corrosion effect. The member cross sections are selected from a pre-specified list of 128 W profiles taken from American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC). A computer program is coded in MATLAB to carry out optimum design interacting with SAP2000 using OAPI (Open Application Programming Interface). The stress constraints are incorporated as indicated in AISC Allowable Stress Design (ASD) specifications and also displacement constraints are applied in optimum design. The results obtained from analysis show that the corrosion effect on steel profile surfaces causes a crucial increase on the minimum steel weight of bridges. Moreover, the results show that the method proposed is applicable and robust to reach the destination even for complex problems.

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  • MakaleYalnız künye2016Scopus SJRQ1
    Optimum design of braced steel frames via teaching learning based optimization

    Artar, Musa

    In this study, optimum structural designs of braced (non-swaying) planar steel frames are investigated by using one of the recent meta-heuristic search techniques, teaching-learning based optimization. Optimum design problems are performed according to American Institute of Steel Construction-Allowable Stress Design (AISCASD) specifications. A computer program is developed in MATLAB interacting with SAP2000 OAPI (Open Application Programming Interface) to conduct optimization procedures. Optimum cross sections are selected from a specified list of 128W profiles taken from AISC. Two different braced planar frames taken from literature are carried out for stress, geometric size, displacement and inter-storey drift constraints. It is concluded that teaching-learning based optimization presents robust and applicable optimum solutions in multi-element structural problems.

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