Optimum design of steel sway frames to BS5950 using harmony search algorithm

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Mathematical and Metaheuristic Applications in Design Optimization of Steel Frame Structures: An Extensive Review (2013, methodology): “Saka [212] presented harmony search algorithm based discrete optimum design method for rigid steel frames.”
Harmony search algorithm for minimum cost design of steel frames with semi-rigid connections and column bases (2010, methodology): “A HS algorithm was proposed by Saka (2009) to perform minimum weight design of for planar steel frames.”
A survey on applications of the harmony search algorithm (2013, background): “The problem presented in Saka (2009b) falls into discrete optimization problems in which finding the optimum feasible solution results in a difficult task.”
A CHARGED SYSTEM SEARCH WITH A FLY TO BOUNDARY METHOD FOR DISCRETE OPTIMUM DESIGN OF TRUSS STRUCTURES (2010, background): “Many research results are available on optimum discrete design of structural problems utilizing different metaheuristic algorithms [2-18].”
Size optimization of space trusses using Big Bang-Big Crunch algorithm (2009, methodology): “In the last decades, different natural evolutionary algorithms have been employed for structural optimization including Genetic Algorithms [1–15], Simulated Annealing algorithm [16–21], Ant Colony Optimization [22–29], Particle Swarm Optimizer [30–32] and Harmony Search [33–35].”