Optimal design of arch dams subjected to earthquake loading by a combination of simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation and particle swarm algorithms

Authors:
S. M. Seyedpoor;J. Salajegheh;E. Salajegheh;S. Gholizadeh
Affiliations:
Department of Civil Engineering, Shomal University, Amol, Iran;Department of Civil Engineering, University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran;Department of Civil Engineering, University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran;Department of Civil Engineering, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran
Venue:
Applied Soft Computing
Year:
2011

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Abstract

An efficient optimization procedure is introduced to find the optimal shapes of arch dams considering fluid-structure interaction subject to earthquake loading. The optimization is performed by a combination of simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (SPSA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithms. This serial integration of the two single methods is termed as SPSA-PSO. The operation of SPSA-PSO includes three phases. In the first phase, a preliminary optimization is accomplished using the SPSA. In the second phase, an optimal initial swarm is produced using the first phase results. In the last phase, the PSO is employed to find the optimum design using the optimal initial swarm. The numerical results demonstrate the high performance of the proposed strategy for optimal design of arch dams. The solutions obtained by the SPSA-PSO are compared with those of SPSA and PSO. It is revealed that the SPSA-PSO converges to a superior solution compared to the SPSA and PSO having a lower computation cost.