Morteza Kazemi Torbaghan - Department of Civil Engineering, Kashmar branch, Islamic Azad University, Kashmar, Iran
Seyyed Mehran Kazemi - Computer Science Department, University of British Columbia
Rahele Zhiani - Department of Chemistry, Neyshabur branch, Islamic Azad University, Neyshabur, Iran
Hamed Fakhriye - Department of Civil Engineering, Kashmar branch, Islamic Azad University, Kashmar, Iran

Truss optimization problem has been vastly studied during the past 30 years and many different methods have been proposed for this problem. Even though most of these methods assume that the design variables are continuously valued, in reality, the design variables of optimization problems such as cross-sectional areas are discretely valued. In this paper, an improved hill climbing and an improved simulated annealing algorithm have been proposed to solve the truss optimization problem with discrete values for cross-sectional areas. Obtained results have been compared to other methods in the literature and the comparison represents that the proposed methods can be used more efficiently than other proposed methods.

Size Optimization of Trusses, Hill Climbing, Simulated Annealing