Metaheuristic Algorithms for Optimal Design of Truss Structures

In today’s extremely developing and competitive world exploiting from a limited amount of available resources to maximize the profits and advantages becomes one of the most challenging efforts of human beings. For instance, in the engineering design of many systems, by implementing a number of restriction criteria, achieving a feasible state under proper economic conditions is targeted. Optimization methods put forward a proper approach to solve these types of problems. Generally, optimization deals with the selection of the best candidate (mostly with regard to some constraints) from a set(s) of available alternatives. Different types of quantitative optimization problems arise in different disciplines from most of the engineering areas to economics. Therefore, the developing solution techniques and algorithms have been the focus of engineering science and applied mathematics for a while. © 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG