Methods to find an optimal solution that is the function of the design variables satisfying all constraints have been studied, there are still many difficulties to apply them to optimal design problems.
A method to solve the above difficulties is dev...
Methods to find an optimal solution that is the function of the design variables satisfying all constraints have been studied, there are still many difficulties to apply them to optimal design problems.
A method to solve the above difficulties is developed by using Genetic Algorithm, it has been successfully applied to various prob-lems with a mix of continuous, integer and discrete design variables that could not have been readily solved with traditional computa-tional techniques, but several problems for which conventional Genetic Algorithm is ill defined are premature convergence of solu-tion and application of exterior penalty function. Thus, we devel-oped an Improved Genetic Algorithm (IGA) to solve above two prob-lems.