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Table 4 Performance evaluation of proposed method on different design domains

From: A firefly algorithm based hybrid method for structural topology optimization

Design domain

Optimal plots

Void material (%) proposed

Void material (%) OC based

Solid material (%) proposed

Solid material (%) OC based

Transition material (%) proposed

Transition material (%) OC based

CCA

51.13

36.71

37.54

55.00

12.63

8.29

CCB

54.50

44.67

7.96

8.50

37.54

46.83

CCC

44.50

38.75

13.46

9.33

42.04

51.92

SS

44.67

37.13

14.38

8.96

40.96

53.92

LLL

60.52

54.6

5.04

4.8

34.44

40.6

LLU

47.96

44.05

6.96

5.6

45.07

50.35

  1. Where CCA, CCB, CCC, SS, LLL and LLU indicate classical cantilever beam, Cantilever beam with pre-defined shape, cantilever beam under multiple loading, simply supported beam and loading and boundary conditions of L-shaped beam, respectively