Since tremendous resources are consumed in the architecture, engineering, and
construction (AEC) industry, the sustainability and efficiency in this field have received …

Structural engineering is focused on the safe and efficient design of infrastructure. Projects
can range in size and complexity, many requiring massive amounts of materials and …

Metaheuristics play a critical role in solving optimization problems, and most of them have
been inspired by the collective intelligence of natural organisms in nature. This paper …

This study develops a novel metaheuristic algorithm that is motivated by the behavior of
jellyfish in the ocean and is called artificial Jellyfish Search (JS) optimizer. The simulation of …

The truss optimization problem has been extensively investigated, and the optimized trusses
have been widely used in various fields. Truss optimization is a challenging optimization …

The optimization of truss structures is a complex computing problem with many local minima,
while metaheuristics are naturally suited to deal with multimodal problems without the need …

Due to its simplicity and efficiency, a recently proposed optimization algorithm, Sine Cosine
Algorithm (SCA), has gained the interest of researchers from various fields for solving …

Nature-inspired algorithms known as metaheuristics have been significantly adopted by
large-scale organizations and the engineering research domain due their several …

At present, the DBSCAN clustering algorithm has been commonly used principally due to its
ability in discovering clusters with arbitrary shapes. When the cluster number K is …

In this study, simultaneous size, shape, and topology optimization of planar and space
trusses are investigated. Moreover, the trusses are subjected to constraints for element …