B. Nouhi
S. Talatahari
H. Kheiri

Chaos is embedded to the he Charged System Search (CSS) to solve practical optimization problems. To improve the ability of global search, different chaotic maps are introduced and three chaotic-CSS methods are developed. A comparison of these variants and the standard CSS demonstrates the superiority and suitability of the selected variants for practical civil optimization problems.

sensor placement; geometrical viewpoint; equivalent elliptical noise; damage detection