Paper Title
Artificial Bee Colony Based Optimum Design Of Reticulated Domes To LRFD-AISC
Abstract
Abstract— This study focuses on developing a structural optimization algorithm based on artificial bee colony method for
solving structural design problems with discrete variables under external loading. Artificial Bee Colony algorithm is one of
the swarm intelligent optimization algorithms which is inspired by honey bee foraging. The structural optimization algorithm
developed minimizes the weight of a steel structure under the provisions of LRFD-AISC. A geometrically nonlinear
reticulated lamella dome is designed by the algorithm developed as an example. It is shown that the performance of the
proposed algorithm is quite efficient and the artificial bee colony algorithm provides another alternative for finding the
optimal design of structural optimization problems.
Index Terms— Metaheuristic Search Techniques, Artificial Bee Colony, Harmony Search Optimization, Reticulated
Lamella Domes, Steel Structures