Amir H Gandomi - BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action, Michigan State University East Lansing, MI ۴۸۸۲۴۱, USA

A new global optimization algorithm, the interior search algorithm (ISA), is introducedfor solving structural design problems. The ISA has been recently proposed and has two newsearch operators, composition optimization and mirror search. In the current study, theoptimization process starts with composition optimization and linearly switches to mirrorsearch. For validation against structural engineering optimization problems, ISA is applied toseveral benchmark structural design problems reported in the literature. The optimalsolutions obtained by ISA are better than the best solutions obtained by the other methodsrepresentative of the state-of-the-art in structural optimization algorithms.

Interior search algorithm; Structural Design Optimization; Engineering optimization