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Genetic Optimization for the design of seismic retrofitting of plane RC frames with Buckling Restrained Braces (BRBs)
2021
The increasing development of computational power in modern digital devices has spread the use of structural optimization in design applications of different fields of engineering problems. This approach exposes engineers to challenging design procedures aimed to optimize all variables to satisfy the imposed requirements, finding the “optimal” solution. Despite this wide use, the application of optimization algorithms for the design of seismic retrofitting strategies becomes tougher, due to the difficulties in finding a mathematical expression which includes and combines all the key variables (i.e., cost, safety, sustainability, design) and the nonlinearity of the analysis. In this paper, t…