Application of Differential Evolution Algorithm for Calibrating Design Seismic Response Spectra
Differential evolution (DE) algorithm is a heuristic approach that has a great ability to solve complex optimization and converges faster and with more certainty than many other acclaimed global optimization methods. In this paper, DE algorithm is applied to calibrate design seismic response spectra, the basic idea is that design response spectra and calculated response spectra are defined as objective function of characteristic parameters, the first turning point, the second turning point (characteristic period), the platform height and the attenuation index, of design response spectra, and the characteristic parameters are obtained by minimizing the objective function. Three pieces of the calculated response spectra for one real are calibrated as an application example. The obtained results demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method.