EXAMPLE 10. OPTIMIZATION OF REINFORCED CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION

EXAMPLE 10: 'OPTIMISATION' 6 where the active functions are Material Cost and Construction Cost . The value of the Weighting Coefficient takes values from 0 to 1 and determines the percentage of participation of each criterion in the optimization. The sum of the weighting coefficients of the criteria that you want to participate as the final optimization objective should be equal to one. Next to the weighting factor field there is a "Min" and "Max" indicator for each criterion to indicate whether the optimization goal is to minimize or maximize the criterion of our choice. For this example, the cost criterion was exclusively the Cost of Materials. 1.1.2 Objective Performance The options of this command will be enabled in a later version of the program. 1.1.3 Design Boundaries Using the " Design Boundaries " command displays the following dialog box: