TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gandomi,Amir Hossein
AU  - Yang,Xin-She
AU  - Talatahari,Siamak
AU  - Alavi,Amir Hossein
TI  - Metaheuristic applications in structures and infrastructures
T2  - Elsevier insights
SN  - 9780123983640
U1  - 621.3  23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Elsevier
KW  - Engineering design
KW  - Mathematical models
KW  - Engineering
KW  - Statistical methods
KW  - Heuristic algorithms
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Due to an ever-decreasing supply in raw materials and stringent constraints on conventional energy sources, demand for lightweight, efficient and low-cost structures has become crucially important in modern engineering design. This requires engineers to search for optimal and robust design options to address design problems that are commonly large in scale and highly nonlinear, making finding solutions challenging. In the past two decades, metaheuristic algorithms have shown promising power, efficiency and versatility in solving these difficult optimization problems --
ER  -