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According to the conditions of today's world, design of resistant structures against blast loading is an important subject that requires special attention. Thus, given the benefits of optimization in engineering, development and assessment of optimization methods for optimum design of structures against blast is of great importance. In this research, the optimum design of steel frame structures against blast loading is investigated. For this purpose first an optimization methodology is proposed. In the proposed method the structural analysis is performed using nonlinear explicit finite element analysis. Based on the proposed method a framework is developed and three numerical examples are investigated using different numerical optimization techniques. Results of this study show that by using nonlinear explicit FE analysis as the structural analysis method and NLPQLP optimization technique as the optimization method, the current optimization problem can be performed effectively, because the procedure is relatively accurate and computationally inexpensive.

In this paper, we evaluated seismic performance properties of steel plate shear wall (SPSW) using Consecutive Modal Pushover Procedure (CMPP). This method is performed on 3, 6 and 9-story SPSW frames subjected to seven earthquake records which are scaled according to ASCE/SEI 7-05 provisions. We conducted nonlinear time history analysis (THA) to verify extracted outputs. The SPSW models indicate a relatively accurate estimation in nonlinear story drift and story displacement response of pushover procedures compared to that of the THA with respect to responses like shear story; while, in the high-rise model in specific, the deformation parameters are more accurate through an increase in the height of the models.