scholarly journals Cost Effective Design of RC Building Frame Employing Unified Particle Swarm Optimization

Author(s):  
Payel Chaudhuri ◽  
Swarup Barman ◽  
Damodar Maity ◽  
Dipak Kumar Maiti

Abstract Present paper deals with the cost effective design of reinforced concrete building frame employing unified particle swarm optimization (UPSO). Two building frames with G + 8 stories and G + 10 stories have been adopted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the present algorithm. Effect of seismic loads and wind load have been considered as per Indian Standard (IS) 1893 (Part-I) and IS 875 (Part-III) respectively. Analysis of the frames has been carried out in STAAD Pro software. The design loads for all the beams and columns obtained from STAAD Pro have been given as input of the optimization algorithm. Next, cost optimization of all beams and columns have been carried out in MATLAB environment using UPSO, considering the safety and serviceability criteria mentioned in IS 456. Cost of formwork, concrete and reinforcement have been considered to calculate the total cost. Reinforcement of beams and columns has been calculated with consideration for curtailment and feasibility of laying the reinforcement bars during actual construction. The numerical analysis ensures the accuracy of the developed algorithm in providing the cost optimized design of RC building frames considering safety, serviceability and constructional feasibilities.Further, Monte Carlo simulations performed on the numerical results, proved the consistency and robustness of the developed algorithm. Thus, the present algorithm is capable of giving a cost effective design of RC building frame, which can be adopted directly in construction site without making any changes.

Author(s):  
Roger Hitchin

Policies to reduce carbon emissions are leading to substantial changes in the demand for electricity and to the structure of electricity supply systems, which will alter the cost structure of electricity supply. This can be expected to result in corresponding changes to the price structure faced by customers. This note is an initial exploration of how possible new price structures may impact on HVAC system and building design and use. Changes in the price structure of electricity supply (separately from changes in price levels) can significantly affect the cost-effective design and operation of building services systems; especially of heating and cooling systems. The nature and implications of these changes can have important implications for future system design and operation.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Mohammed Al-Andoli ◽  
Wooi Ping Cheah ◽  
Shing Chiang Tan

Detecting communities is an important multidisciplinary research discipline and is considered vital to understand the structure of complex networks. Deep autoencoders have been successfully proposed to solve the problem of community detection. However, existing models in the literature are trained based on gradient descent optimization with the backpropagation algorithm, which is known to converge to local minima and prove inefficient, especially in big data scenarios. To tackle these drawbacks, this work proposed a novel deep autoencoder with Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and continuation algorithms to reveal community structures in complex networks. The PSO and continuation algorithms were utilized to avoid the local minimum and premature convergence, and to reduce overall training execution time. Two objective functions were also employed in the proposed model: minimizing the cost function of the autoencoder, and maximizing the modularity function, which refers to the quality of the detected communities. This work also proposed other methods to work in the absence of continuation, and to enable premature convergence. Extensive empirical experiments on 11 publically-available real-world datasets demonstrated that the proposed method is effective and promising for deriving communities in complex networks, as well as outperforming state-of-the-art deep learning community detection algorithms.


2015 ◽  
Vol 785 ◽  
pp. 495-499
Author(s):  
Siti Amely Jumaat ◽  
Ismail Musirin

The paper presents a comparison of performance Static Var Compensator (SVC) and Thyristor Controlled Series Compensator (TCSC) with objective function to minimize the transmission loss, improve the voltage and monitoring the cost of installation. Simulation performed on standard IEEE 30-Bus RTS and indicated that EPSO a feasible to achieve the objective function.


Processes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 2000
Author(s):  
Jin-Hwan Lee ◽  
Woo-Jung Kim ◽  
Sang-Yong Jung

This paper proposes a robust optimization algorithm customized for the optimal design of electric machines. The proposed algorithm, termed “robust explorative particle swarm optimization” (RePSO), is a hybrid algorithm that affords high accuracy and a high search speed when determining robust optimal solutions. To ensure the robustness of the determined optimal solution, RePSO employs the rate of change of the cost function. When this rate is high, the cost function appears as a steep curve, indicating low robustness; in contrast, when the rate is low, the cost function takes the form of a gradual curve, indicating high robustness. For verification, the performance of the proposed algorithm was compared with those of the conventional methods of robust particle swarm optimization and explorative particle swarm optimization with a Gaussian basis test function. The target performance of the traction motor for the optimal design was derived using a simulation of vehicle driving performance. Based on the simulation results, the target performance of the traction motor requires a maximum torque and power of 294 Nm and 88 kW, respectively. The base model, an 8-pole 72-slot permanent magnet synchronous machine, was designed considering the target performance. Accordingly, an optimal design was realized using the proposed algorithm. The cost function for this optimal design was selected such that the torque ripple, total harmonic distortion of back-electromotive force, and cogging torque were minimized. Finally, experiments were performed on the manufactured optimal model. The robustness and effectiveness of the proposed algorithm were validated by comparing the analytical and experimental results.


2013 ◽  
Vol 686 ◽  
pp. 266-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syarizal Fonna ◽  
M. Ridha ◽  
Syifaul Huzni ◽  
Ahmad Kamal Ariffin

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) has been applied as optimization tool in various engineering problems. Inverse analysis is one of the potential application fields for PSO. In this research, the behavior of PSO, related to its inertia weight, in boundary element inverse analysis for detecting corrosion of rebar in concrete is studied. Boundary element inverse analysis was developed by combining BEM and PSO. The inverse analysis is carried out by means of minimizing a cost function. The cost function is a residual between the calculated and measured potentials on the concrete surface. The calculated potentials are obtained by solving the Laplace’s equation using BEM. PSO is used to minimize the cost function. Thus, the corrosion profile of concrete steel, such as location and size, can be detected. Variation in its inertia weight was applied to analyze the behavior of PSO for inverse analysis. The numerical simulation results show that PSO can be used for the inverse analysis for detecting rebar corrosion by combining with BEM. Also, it shows different behavior in minimizing cost function depending on inertia weight.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.15) ◽  
pp. 469
Author(s):  
Pakedam Lare ◽  
Byamakesh Nayak ◽  
Srikanta Dash ◽  
Jiban Ballav Sahu

The cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Inverter has been found a promising technology in industrial applications because of its higher voltage with less distortion production. Various PWMs techniques have been proposed to push the harmonics frequencies higher than the switching frequency and thus reduces the THD as compared to non-carrier control technique based upon grid frequency. The Phase-Shifted PWM technique has an advantage over others PWM techniques because its harmonics orders are multiples of switching frequency and also depend on the number of levels of the inverter. The phase shifting angle is uniform when the equal voltage sources are adopted. However, in applications where sets of different voltage source levels feed the H-Bridge cells, the Phase Shifted PWM suffers its high order harmonics elimination capability. As a solution to alleviate this problem, an adaptive variable angle approach is proposed in this paper using Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm to eliminate desired higher order harmonics. The algorithm is used to minimize the cost function based on high order sideband harmonics elimination equations. The results through MATLAB/Simulink environment shown in this paper confirm the reduction of sideband harmonics of higher orders, and the overall THD.  


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