Buildable Design in Optimisation of Steel Skeletal Structures: A Comparison of Existing and New Methods for Finding the Best Solution with Low Diversity

In the design of steel structures, optimisation methods promise cheap, light and sustainable structures. However, the resulting designs tend to have a high diversity of profiles, making them unbuildable. Furthermore, the optimisation problem is mathematically complex, leading to a long and potentially unsolvable optimisation process. Grouping...