Optimum Design Of Elastic Continuous Foundations With The Artificial Bee Colony Method

Abstract

The study presents the investigation of the elastic behavior of the soil in the optimal design of continuous foundations according to the rigid solid case. For the investigation, the optimization algorithm that can find optimal section and reinforcement details of continuous foundations has been developed. The developed algorithm uses one of the well-known meta-heuristic methods named the artificial Bee Colony method to find the optimal design. The Winkler spring hypothesis (analytic solution) is used to calculate internal forces and stresses in elastic continuous foundations. We used the real-size design example previously used in the literature to test the elastic soil effect and algorithm performance. The obtained results show that the current algorithm performs well, and lower cost values are obtained in the elastic design.

Keywords

• continuous fondation design
• elastic line method
• optimization
• Artificial Bee Colony

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