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A hybrid PSO-GA algorithm for optimization of laminated composites

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Elias Saraiva Barroso
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Evandro Parente *
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Antônio Macário Cartaxo de Melo
DOI:10.1007/s00158-016-1631-ydelete
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This paper presents a new hybrid Particle Swarm Algorithm (PSO) for optimization of laminated composite structures. The method combines the standard PSO heuristics with Genetic Algorithm operators in order to improve the algorithm performance. Thus, operations that are important to the optimization of laminated composites such as mutation and layer swap are incorporated into the method. A specially designed encoding scheme is used to represent the laminate variables and the associated velocities. A study is carried-out to select the best variant of the proposed method for the optimization of laminated composites, considering different swarm topologies and genetic operators. Both strength maximization and weight minimization problems are considered. A meta-optimization procedure is used to tune the parameters of each variant in order to avoid biased results. The results showed that the proposed method led to excellent results for both traditional and dispersed laminates, representing a significant improvement over the standard PSO algorithm.
Keywords:
Laminated composites
Particle swarm optimization
Generic algorithm
Meta-Optimization
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Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization cover
Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization
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