Investigating the Optimal Design Variables of Concrete Slabs with Impact Resistance by Development a Multi-Objective Model to Save Cost-Time of Construction

Abstract

Globally, construction industry plays a key role in development of an economy of any country. On the other side, construction projects suffer extensive delays and cost overruns exceeding by that the budgeted money and the estimated time. Therefore, adopting techniques like optimization technique in construction media became a necessity for preventing the actual cost and execution time of projects from exceeding the planned cost and estimated time, respectively. Since, concrete is the most essential construction and the most used material in construction projects construction where it influences extremely gross domestic products of numerous nations in the world, a multi-objective mathematical model with mixed linear and binary constraints is developed to specify the optimal solution of differently designed concrete slabs to impact loads. Eight concrete slabs had various design parameters, such as concrete thickness, steel fiber ratio, reinforcement ratio, and steel stiffener thickness are used in this study. The mathematical model comprised two objective functions: minimization cost and time, and had a number of constraints like concrete ingredients, load, deflection, and weight. The outputs of the developed model revealed a variety of slab design combinations with different cost, time, and deadloads depending on the limitations of serviceability loads.