Designing of Elastoplastic Adaptive Truss Structures with the Use of Particle Swarm Optimization

Figure 6

Original truss-beam structure (O) with two impacting masses,  kg,  m/s (the left node marked with a square),  kg,  m/s (the right one). (A), (B), and (C) denote final states of PSO for various initial conditions; (G) represents the solution obtained with the gradient optimization in [7]. Here, the total width is 1.1 m; the height is 0.1 m.