OPTIMAL DESIGN WITH EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS OF A GEAR COUPLING

Ovidiu BUIGA, Simion HARAGÂŞ

Abstract


In this paper an optimal design of a gear coupling is presented. The novelty of this paper consists in the optimal approach of the gear coupling. The chosen objective function was the mass of the gear coupling. For this optimization problem, eleven genes were taken into consideration and a set of twelve constraints were formulated. In solving the optimization problem we used a two-phase evolutionary algorithm (inspired from the evolutionary concept of “punctuated equilibrium”) in a formulation that can be extended to include other important objectives. Key words: Evolutionary optimization, gear coupling design.

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