Shear Wall Cost Optimization by Employing Harmony Search

In this study, shear walls that are employed for construction are optimized in terms of cost by using Harmony Search (HS) which is one of the metaheuristic algorithms. All necessary variables, constants, constraints along with equations are specified from the TS 500 (Requirements for Design and Construction of Reinforced Concrete Structures) [1] and TBDY 2018 (Turkiye Structures Earthquake Standard) [2] standards, which are employed to build a structure with an appropriate design and sufficient capacity under the loading. Regarding these standards, using shear walls is an indispensable structure element because they show good performance in case of earthquake and wind loading which are known as lateral loads. A building that is 3 floors and with a 9-m height is used, and all necessary unknowns are computed thanks to the algorithm in the program. C30/37 and C40/50 concrete classes are used separately, and objective functions’ results are found to have different values because cross-section and reinforcement area affect the result of the objective function.