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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 103
PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFT COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY IN CIVIL, STRUCTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Edited by: Y. Tsompanakis
Paper 3

Multi-Objective Reconstruction of Random Media

A. Pospíšilová1, M. Lepš1 and J. Zeman1,2

1Department of Mechanics, Faculty of Civil Engineering
Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
2Centre of Excellence IT4Innovations, VŠB-TU Ostrava, Czech Republic

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
, "Multi-Objective Reconstruction of Random Media", in Y. Tsompanakis, (Editor), "Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Soft Computing Technology in Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 3, 2013. doi:10.4203/ccp.103.3
Keywords: multi-objective optimization, genetic algorithm, non-dominated sorting.

Summary

To simplify a numerical analysis of complicated real microstructures, a material representative volume element is defined. It is based on a binary (black and white) image, which statistically resembles a corresponding real microstructure. Several statistical descriptors suitable for the microstructure characterization of a random media can be considered. Then, for example a unit cell can be derived from the optimization procedure formulated in terms of selected statistical descriptors. The aim of the work described in this paper is to resolve this issue using multi-objective optimization techniques. The goal is to approximate as closely as possible the true Pareto front as a trade-off of competing objectives. The performance of the multi-objective algorithm is verified by the reconstruction of given artificial images and is compared with results of the single-objective counterparts.

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