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15) Optimum Design of Cold - Formed Steel Channel Beams Using Micro Genetic Algorithm PDF
15) Optimum Design of Cold - Formed Steel Channel Beams Using Micro Genetic Algorithm PDF
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Received 24 February 2003; received in revised form 11 August 2004; accepted 16 August 2004
Available online 25 September 2004
Abstract
An important advantage of cold-formed steel is the great flexibility of cross-sectional profiles and sizes available to structural steel
designers. However, this flexibility makes the selection of the most economical section difficult for a particular situation. In this study, a
micro Genetic Algorithm (µ-GA) is used to find an optimum cross-section of cold-formed steel beams. The µ-GA is one of the improved
form of GAs, to reduce iteration and computing resources by using small populations. The design curves are generated for optimum values
of the thickness and the web flat-depth-to-thickness ratio for unbraced beams under uniformly distributed load. As numerical results, the
optimum design curves are presented for various load level.
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Keywords: Cold-formed steel channel beams; Optimization; Micro-genetic algorithm
∗ Corresponding author. Tel.: +82 2 3408 3287; fax: +82 2 3408 3331. Cold-formed steel structures are susceptible to local
E-mail address: jhlee@sejong.ac.kr (J. Lee). buckling well below the global buckling load level due
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doi:10.1016/j.engstruct.2004.08.008
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where h is the depth of the flat portion of the web measured reaction. The nominal web crippling strength Pn for a single
along the plane of web, t is the thickness of the web, and kv unreinforced web can be determined as follows:
is the shear buckling coefficient, which is equal to 5.34 for R N
unreinforced webs. Pn = Ct Fy sin θ 1 − C R
2
1 + CN
t t
2.6. Combined bending and shear strength
h
× 1 − Ch (18)
The following interaction equation should be satisfied for t
combined bending and shear strength of cold-formed steel where N is the bearing length, R is the inside bend radius,
channel beams having unstiffened web: θ is the angle between the plane of the web and the bending
surface, C is the web crippling coefficient, C R is the inside
Ωb M 2 Ωv V 2
+ ≤ 1.0 (17) bend radius coefficient, C N is the bearing length coefficient
Mnxo Vn
and Ch is the web slenderness coefficient. The coefficients
where M and V are the required allowable moment and and safety factors are given in Table 1.
shear strength resulting from uniformly distributed load,
respectively, Ωb and Ωv are the factor of safety for bending 2.8. Combined bending and web crippling strength
(1.67) and shear (1.60), Mnxo is the nominal flexural strength
about the centroidal x-axes determined for bending only, Unreinforced flat webs of shapes subjected to a
excluding lateral buckling, and Vn is the nominal shear combination of bending and concentrated load or reaction
strength when shear alone is considered. should be designed to meet the following requirements:
ΩW P Ωb M
2.7. Web crippling strength 1.2 + ≤ 1.5 (19)
Pn Mnxo
The webs of thin-walled cold-formed steel beams may where Ωb and ΩW are the factor of safety for bending
cripple due to the high local intensity of the load or (1.67) and web crippling (1.80), P is the required allowable
J. Lee et al. / Engineering Structures 27 (2005) 17–24 21
Table 1
Coefficients of single web channel and C-sections
2.9. Deflection
3. Optimization formulation for cold-formed steel chan- Fig. 6. Cross-section of a cold-formed steel channel.
nel beams
as the manufacturing section size changes.
The optimum design formulation of cold-formed steel
D L ≤ D ≤ DU (22)
channel beams is derived based on the AISI specification [4]
mentioned in the previous section. The objective function is B L ≤ B ≤ BU (23)
the cross-sectional area of beams consisting of four design R L ≤ R ≤ RU (24)
variables—depth (D), width (B), thickness (t) and radius t L ≤ t ≤ tU . (25)
(R). Eqs. (20) and (21) represent the objective function and
constraints of the present problem. Since the Genetic Algorithm is an unconstrained opti-
Minimize f (x) = (X 1 + 2X 2 − 0.86X 3 − 2.43X 4)X 4 mization technique, the optimization formulation is trans-
(20)
(X 1 = D, X 2 = B, X 3 = R, X 4 = t) formed by using the penalty function method as given in
Eq. (26). Penalty terms are added to the original objective
Mn
Subject to : M ≤ function when any constraint is violated. The amount of
Ωb penalty is decided by the ratio of violation. Each gene might
L have a higher fitness value in the fitness evaluation in the
δ≤
300 Genetic Algorithm as each gene has a lower objective func-
Vn tion value. The opportunity to be a parent gene is reduced
V ≤ as having lower fitness value; therefore, the gene with lower
Ωv
fitness value would have lower survival probability on the
Ωb M 2 Ωv V 2
+ ≤ 1.0 next generation. Those genes would become extinct after
Mnxo Vn several generations and surviving genes with higher fitness
(21)
Pn value should produce better children on the next generation.
P≤
Ωw Minimize F(X, M) = f (X)
ΩW P Ωb M (Required Strength ≤ Allowable Strength)
1.2 + ≤ 1.5 (26)
Pn Mnxo F(X, M) = f (X) + penalty(X)
h (Required Strength > Allowable Strength)
≤ 200
t Ωb M 300δ Ωv V Ωb M 2
penalty (X) = r + + +
b Mn L Vn Mnxo
≤ 60 2
t Ωv V 1 h 1 b Ωw P
+ + + +
where f (x) is the cross-sectional area of a cold-formed steel Vn 200 t 60 t Pn
channel beam.
2
1 ΩW P Ωb M
The upper and lower bounds of each design variable are + 1.2 + (27)
1.5 Pn Mnxo
considered for manufacturing, and used as side constraints
as Eqs. (22)–(25). The side constraints are subject to change where, r is a penalty constant.
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Fig. 10. Optimum design thickness versus span length with no bearing
length.
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