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Elham Mousavian and Claudia Casapulla
Segmental arched forms composed of discrete units are among the most common construction systems, ranging from historic masonry vaults to contemporary precast concrete shells. Simple fabrication, transport, and assembly have particularly made these struc...
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Evangelos Filippou, Spyridon Kilimtzidis, Athanasios Kotzakolios and Vassilis Kostopoulos
The pursuit of more efficient transport has led engineers to develop a wide variety of aircraft configurations with the aim of reducing fuel consumption and emissions. However, these innovative designs introduce significant aeroelastic couplings that can...
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Chuan Xie, Weixing Yao, Danfa Zhou and Caijun Xue
The main concern of the paper is the concurrent treatment of size and layout variables in the static?dynamic coupled layout optimization of stiffened plates. As compared to size optimization alone, layout optimization is a more challenging task, and the ...
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Yuqing Zhong, Xiaoxiang Zhang, Yanfei Yang and Minghui Xue
Mountainous cities face various land use challenges, including complex topography, low land use efficiency, and the insufficient control of land use in small-scale areas at the urban fringe. Considering population changes, environmental conservation, and...
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Chao Xu, Weixing Yao and Danfa Zhou
The conventional structural layout optimization method is usually used to solve the layout optimization problem of a single structure, but it is difficult to apply to the layout optimization problem of the modular aircraft structure containing multiple s...
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Rogério Rodrigues dos Santos, Tulio Gomes de Paula Machado and Saullo Giovani Pereira Castro
One of the core technologies in lightweight structures is the optimal design of laminated composite stiffened panels. The increasing tailoring potential of new materials added to the simultaneous optimization of various design regions, leading to design ...
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Doddy Prayogo,Jessica Chandra Sutanto,Hieronimus Enrico Suryo,Samuel Eric
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A good arrangement of site layout on a construction project is a fundamental component of the project?s efficiency. Optimization on site layout is necessary in order to reduce the transportation cost of resources or personnel between facilities. Recently...
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Xiangbin Meng, Hai Sun and Jichuan Kang
There are many factors involved in the layout optimization of cabin equipment, and human factors should be considered in the early stage of layout design. Human reliability is an effective index to evaluate the probability of success of the human complet...
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Yanan Wu, He Wu, Hooi-Siang Kang and He Li
This article focuses on the optimization of the layout of a tidal current turbine array (TCTA) using the Quantum Discrete Particle Swarm (QDPS) algorithm. The objective of the optimization is to balance the maximum energy output and minimum levelized cos...
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Magnus Daniel Kallinger, José Ignacio Rapha, Pau Trubat Casal and José Luis Domínguez-García
Electrical grid layout optimization should consider the placements of turbines and substations and include effects such as wake losses, power losses in cables, availability of different cable types, reliability-based power losses and operational/decommis...
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Haiying Sun, Hongxing Yang and Siyu Tao
In order to make full use of the potential of wind resources in a specific offshore area, this paper proposes a new method to simultaneously optimize the number, hub height and layout of a wind farm. The wind farm is subdivided by grids, and the intersec...
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Eduardo J. Solteiro Pires, Adelaide Cerveira and José Baptista
This work addresses the wind farm (WF) optimization layout considering several substations. It is given a set of wind turbines jointly with a set of substations, and the goal is to obtain the optimal design to minimize the infrastructure cost and the cos...
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Jyoti R. Munavalli, Shyam Vasudeva Rao, Aravind Srinivasan and Frits Van Merode
Evolutionary algorithms, such as genetic algorithms have been used in various optimization problems. In this paper, we propose to apply this algorithm to obtain the layout design/redesign in order to improve the patient flow in an outpatient clinic. Layo...
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Carlo E. D. Riboldi and Alberto Rolando
Despite offering often significant advantages with respect to other flying machines, especially in terms of flight endurance, airships are typically harder to control. Technological solutions borrowed from the realm of shipbuilding, such as bow thrusters...
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Aykut Tamer, Vincenzo Muscarello, Giuseppe Quaranta and Pierangelo Masarati
Helicopter Emergency and Medical Service (HEMS) vehicles require a specially configured cabin that supports the quick transport of a rescue team to the site of an emergency and return of patients back to a full capacity hospital, while sustaining the pat...
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Peixin Gao, Jiwu Li, Jingyu Zhai, Yang Tao and Qingkai Han
This paper proposes a novel optimization layout method for supporting clamps in a pipeline system. In this method, the global sensitivity analysis based on the Sobol method is presented to determine the influence of clamp position on the first-order freq...
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Doddy Prayogo, Min-Yuan Cheng, Yu-Wei Wu, A. A. N. Perwira Redi, Vincent F. Yu, Satria Fadil Persada and Reny Nadlifatin
Symbiotic organisms search (SOS) is a promising metaheuristic algorithm that has been studied recently by numerous researchers due to its capability to solve various hard and complex optimization problems. SOS is a powerful optimization technique that mi...
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Zupeng Liu, Keping Li, Ying Ni
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Arterial coordinated control and transit signal priority are effective ways to alleviate traffic congestion. Transit vehicles must enter the bus stops for passenger boarding and alighting. The research of transit signal priority should consider the impac...
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Ju Feng and Wen Zhong Shen
Reliable wind modelling is of crucial importance for wind farm development. The common practice of using sector-wise Weibull distributions has been found inappropriate for wind farm layout optimization. In this study, we propose a simple and easily imple...
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Di Lan, Kezhen Chen and Zhen Xu
During the design process, architectural layout configuration is subject to complex constraints such as site conditions and design requirements, resulting in limited design efficiency. This research aims to provide architects with an effective design too...
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