NAA 2014 - Symposium on New Approaches and Applications for Optimization in Structural and Earthquake Engineering

In addition to design, best efficiency with minimum costs is vital goal of an engineer. While computing engineering problems, selecting several design variables are depended to the decision of engineers. By using optimization techniques, it is possible to find best suitable design variables. Also, optimization techniques can be used for solving uncertain and nonlinear problems. In structural and earthquake engineering, uncertainties and nonlinearities are a great problem for researchers.
New optimization approaches and applications of existing methods on engineering problems are developing subjects. The aim of this mini-symposium is to bring academicians working on structural and earthquake engineering together in order to present and discuss their researches. The scope of the mini-symposium includes mathematical optimization techniques, metaheuristic algorithms and search techniques. In addition to that, structural and earthquake engineering studies propose efficient design approaches according to numerical analyses and experiments may also presented in the mini-symposium.