Optimization of Stiffened Composite Plate Using Balancing Composite Motion Optimization

Abstract

Recently, metaheuristic optimization algorithms have been studied and applied in many fields of engineering, especially in solving structural optimization problems. For structures with complex behaviors, the selection of a suitable optimization algorithm significantly increases the computational efficiency and the accuracy of the solution. In this paper, we investigate the optimization problem of stiffened composite plates using Balancing Composite Motion Optimization. The core idea of the Balancing Composite Motion Optimization algorithm is that the searching movements of candidate solutions are compositely equalized in both global and local ones in the solution space of solving the fiber optimization problem of stiffened composite plates. A candidate solution can move closer to better ones to exploit the local regions and move further to explore the search space also. The method does not require algorithm parameters. The calculation results are compared with many other metaheuristic optimization methods to prove the accuracy and efficiency of the method.