Heuristic placement approach

The architecture of the proposed heuristic placement approach is shown in Fig. 6.1. First, the grid approximation is used to represent any shaped objects in... 

For large civil engineering structures it is necessary to install a sufficient number of dampers to achieve a reduction of the stmctural response due to earthquake and the performance of these dampers depends on their location in the structures. The selection of few locations out of a large number of locations for the placement of passive dampers is typically a nonlinear constrained optimization problem. This problem can be solved either by simple heuristic search approaches or through integral optimization. The first ones are simple and they yield a solution which may be close to the optimal solution, but computationally expensive, instead the second ones are fast but solution is complex. 

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