OPTIMUM DESIGN OF PLATE STRUCTURES USING BINARY PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION

Particle swarm optimization is an efficient population based algorithm used to solve realvalued and nonlinear continuous optimization problems. To resolve binary optimizationproblems with PSO, binary particle swarm optimization (BPSO) has been developed. In thispaper, optimum design of plates using BPSO is presented. The objective function aims atfinding the optimum weight of plates with the nodal displacements selected as constraints.Numerical examples show that BPSO can be a suitable algorithm to solve optimizationproblems in binary search space.