A Simplified Flower Pollination Algorithm for Structural Optimization of Trusses

The flower Pollination Algorithm (FPA) is inspired by the reproduction process of flowering plants and it uses the pollination processes as two phases that represent global and local optimization. In this study, these two phases are combined in a single phase in the process of modification of the flower pollination algorithm. This simplified FPA is applied to a structural optimization problem which is weight minimization of trusses. The results showed that the simplified FPA is also competitive with classical FPA with two phases.