Optimal design of groundwater remediation system using a probabilistic multi-objective fast harmony search algorithm under uncertainty

2014 ◽  
Vol 519 ◽  
pp. 3305-3315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiankun Luo ◽  
Jianfeng Wu ◽  
Yun Yang ◽  
Jiazhong Qian ◽  
Jichun Wu
2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 1497-1510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiankun Luo ◽  
Jianfeng Wu ◽  
Xiaomin Sun ◽  
Yun Yang ◽  
Jichun Wu

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Young Choi ◽  
Joong Kim

This study proposes a multi-objective optimal design approach for water distribution systems, considering mechanical system redundancy under multiple pipe failure. Mechanical redundancy is applied to the system’s hydraulic ability, based on the pressure deficit between the pressure requirements under abnormal conditions. The developed design approach shows the relationships between multiple pipe failure states and system redundancy, for different numbers of pipe-failure conditions (e.g., first, second, third, …, tenth). Furthermore, to consider extreme demand modeling, the threshold of the demand quantity is investigated simultaneously with multiple pipe failure modeling. The design performance is evaluated using the mechanical redundancy deficit under extreme demand conditions. To verify the proposed design approach, an expanded version of the well-known benchmark network is used, configured as an ideal grid-shape, and the multi-objective harmony search algorithm is used as the optimal design approach, considering construction cost and system mechanical redundancy. This optimal design technique could be used to propose a standard for pipe failure, based on factors such as the number of broken pipes, during failure condition analysis for redundancy-based designs of water distribution systems.


2015 ◽  
Vol 813-814 ◽  
pp. 1032-1036
Author(s):  
P. Sabarinath ◽  
M.R. Thansekhar ◽  
R. Jeganathan ◽  
R. Saravanan

Mechanical design engineers design products by selecting the best possible materials and geometries that satisfies the specific operational requirements of the design. It involves lot of creativity and aesthetics to make better designs. A gear design makes the designer to compromise many design variables so as to arrive the best performance of a gear set. The best possible way for multi variable, Multiobjective gear design is to try design optimization. For many complex engineering optimization problems multi objective design optimization methods are used to simplify the design problem. In this paper, multiobjective design of helical gear pair transmission with objective functions namely volume of the small and large helical gear and opposite number of overlap ratio is taken into account. The design variables considered are normal module, helix angle, gear width coefficient and teeth number of small helical gear. A recent meta-heuristic algorithm namely parameter adaptive harmony search algorithm is applied to solve this problem using the weighted sum approach. It is evident from the results that the proposed approach is performing better than other algorithms.


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