Stiffness and inertia multicriteria evolutionary structural optimisation

Abstract

In continuation of the recent development of Evolutionary Structural Optimisation (ESO) applied to the simultaneous objective to maximise the natural frequency and to minimise the mean compliance, presents the Multicriteria ESO optimisation of two new criteria. This has been done with the use of four different multicriteria methods. Three examples have been used to verify the usefulness and capability of these methods applied to ESO in the context of the aforementioned criteria. Concluded that the ESO weighting method is proficient in presenting the designer with a range of options (of Pareto attribute) taking into account multiple criteria, and the global criterion method has the tendency to produce shapes and topologies that resemble that of the weighted 50 per cent: 50 per cent method. Likewise, the logical OR operator method produced designs that corresponded directly to those of 100 per cent stiffness weighted criteria. No clear resemblance could be concluded with the case of the logical AND operator method.

Citation

Proos, K.A., Steven, G.P., Querin, O.M. and Xie, Y.M. (2001), "Stiffness and inertia multicriteria evolutionary structural optimisation", Engineering Computations, Vol. 18 No. 7, pp. 1031-1054. https://doi.org/10.1108/02644400110404028