An Objective-Based Design Approach of Retaining Walls Using Cuckoo Search Algorithm

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2020-01-01

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Tutuş, Eren Burak
Ghalandari, Taher
Pekcan, Onur

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In the past two decades, there has been ongoing trend to design retaining walls in an optimal way rather than the conventional trial and-error approach. In this study, reinforced concrete cantilever retaining wall is optimized using the Cuckoo Search (CS) algorithm, a metaheuristic swarm-based method that imitates the reproductive behavior of cuckoo birds. To obtain the optimal solution, design requirements are expressed as constraints to overcome violated solutions. Together with a mathematical definition of the objective function, three constraint groups are used to represent the geotechnical, structural, and geometrical design considerations. In addition, an objective-based design approach is introduced to optimize the cost and weight objective functions simultaneously. The performance of theCS is proved through its application on cantilever retaining walls, where two numerical examples are solved in terms of both cost and the weight of the walls. The results indicate that the CS is be a viable solution for the optimum design of retaining walls.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5163-5
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/85256
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-15-5163-5_11

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Applications of Cuckoo Search Algorithm and its Variants

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Department of Civil Engineering, Book / Book chapter

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E. B. Tutuş, T. Ghalandari, and O. Pekcan, An Objective-Based Design Approach of Retaining Walls Using Cuckoo Search Algorithm. 2020, p. 275.