Determining the Optimum Section of Tunnels Using Ant Colony Optimization
Ant colony optimization is developed to determine optimum cross sections of tunnel structures. Tunnel structures are expensive infrastructures in terms of material, construction, and maintenance and the application of optimization methods has a great role in minimizing their costs. This paper presen...
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doaj-4023e33ee93547be871ccf238374bf172020-11-24T23:21:42ZengHindawi LimitedMathematical Problems in Engineering1024-123X1563-51472013-01-01201310.1155/2013/320360320360Determining the Optimum Section of Tunnels Using Ant Colony OptimizationS. Talatahari0Marand Faculty of Engineering, University of Tabriz, Tabriz 51666-14766, IranAnt colony optimization is developed to determine optimum cross sections of tunnel structures. Tunnel structures are expensive infrastructures in terms of material, construction, and maintenance and the application of optimization methods has a great role in minimizing their costs. This paper presents the formulation of objective function and constraints of the problem for the first time, and the ant colony optimization, as a developed metaheuristic approach, has been used to solve the problem. The results and comparisons based on numerical examples show the efficiency of the algorithm.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/320360 |
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Ant colony optimization is developed to determine optimum cross sections of tunnel structures. Tunnel structures are expensive infrastructures in terms of material, construction, and maintenance and the application of optimization methods has a great role in minimizing their costs. This paper presents the formulation of objective function and constraints of the problem for the first time, and the ant colony optimization, as a developed metaheuristic approach, has been used to solve the problem. The results and comparisons based on numerical examples show the efficiency of the algorithm. |
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