Designing of Elastoplastic Adaptive Truss Structures with the Use of Particle Swarm Optimization

Figure 5

(a) Convergence of PSO for various initial populations: (A), (B), and (C); (G) represents the optimum as found by the gradient method [7]. (b) Response of the original structure and the one which is a result of PSO (A).

(a)

(b)