Iris Publishers-Scholarly Open access Journals of Civil and Structural Engineering
Iris Publishers - Scholarly Open access Journals of Civil and Structural Engineering Achieving A Higher Optimality for Lattice Steel Structures Utilizing A Multi-Layer Optimization Scheme Finding the optimum layout of a given structure that satisfies all the architectural requirements while maintaining the structural optimality has been of interest to the research community for many years. Concurrently, the structural design community has been making effort towards reducing the environmental impact through optimizing the structural design. However, the gap between the layout optimization in research and the structural design industry is yet to be significantly reduced. This research proposes a multilayer optimization framework, where the first layer is concerned with solving the layout problem using Simple Isotropic Material with Penalization (SIMP) topology optimization, and the second optimization layer determines the optimum structural elements’ design for the proposed layout ...