Optimal Design of Truss Structures based on the New Improved Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm

摘要

This paper highlighted a new improved ant colony optimization algorithm was realized to deal with structures optimization problems efficiently, with several special improvements. The new algorithm procedure was written by the MATLAB language. The numerical simulation results demonstrated that this new methodology revealed more obvious advantage at truss structural optimization problems in discrete system. For the civil engineering designer, this new method is very simple and practical, and much more suitable.