Optimum Design of Sandwich Panel Using Hybrid Metaheuristics Approach

J. Ocean Eng. Technol. 2003;17(6):38-46.

Kim Yun-Young,Cho Min-Cheol,Park Je-Woong,Gotoh Koji,Toyosada Masahiro

Dept. of Marine System Engineering Kyushu University,Dept. of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Chosun University,Dept. of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Chosun University,Dept. of Marine System Engineering Kyushu University,Dept. of

Keywords: Micro-genetic Simulated Annealing, Scatter Search, Tabu Search, Global Optimisation, Metaheuristics

Abstract

Aim of this article is to propose Micro-Genetic Simulated Annealing (${mu}GSA$) as a hybrid metaheuristics approach to find the global optimum of nonlinear optimisation problems. This approach combines the features of modern metaheuristics such as micro-genetic algorithm (${mu}GAs$) and simulated annealing (SA) with the general robustness of parallel exploration and asymptotic convergence, respectively. Therefore, ${mu}GSA$ approach can help in avoiding the premature convergence and can search for better global solution, because of its wide spread applicability, global perspective and inherent parallelism. For the superior performance of the ${mu}GSA$, the five well-know benchmark test functions that were tested and compared with the two global optimisation approaches: scatter search (SS) and hybrid scatter genetic tabu (HSGT) approach. A practical application to structural sandwich panel is also examined by optimism the weight function. From the simulation results, it has been concluded that the proposed ${mu}GSA$ approach is an effective optimisation tool for soloing continuous nonlinear global optimisation problems in suitable computational time frame.