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Cost optimization of reinforced high strength concrete T-sections in flexure

  • Tiliouine, B. (Ecole Nationale Polytechnique, Departement de Genie-Civil, Laboratoire de Genie Sismique et de Dynamique des Structures) ;
  • Fedghouche, F. (Ecole Nationale Polytechnique, Departement de Genie-Civil, Laboratoire de Genie Sismique et de Dynamique des Structures)
  • Received : 2012.10.29
  • Accepted : 2013.11.09
  • Published : 2014.01.10
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Abstract

This paper reports on the development of a minimum cost design model and its application for obtaining economic designs for reinforced High Strength Concrete (HSC) T-sections in bending under ultimate limit state conditions. Cost objective functions, behavior constraint including material nonlinearities of steel and HSC, conditions on strain compatibility in steel and concrete and geometric design variable constraints are derived and implemented within the Conjugate Gradient optimization algorithm. Particular attention is paid to problem formulation, solution behavior and economic considerations. A typical example problem is considered to illustrate the applicability of the minimum cost design model and solution methodology. Results are confronted to design solutions derived from conventional design office methods to evaluate the performance of the cost model and its sensitivity to a wide range of unit cost ratios of construction materials and various classes of HSC described in Eurocode2. It is shown, among others that optimal solutions achieved using the present approach can lead to substantial savings in the amount of construction materials to be used. In addition, the proposed approach is practically simple, reliable and computationally effective compared to standard design procedures used in current engineering practice.

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