Winner of ISCSO 2021

We would like to thank all the ISCSO 2021 participants for their contributions to the event. The winner of ISCSO 2021 is Team Pantheon from METU, Turkey and University of Rochester, USA. The optimum solution reported by the winning team is

Optimization Problem and Winner of ISCSO 2021

Problem Definition The three-dimensional steel truss structure shown below is composed of 345 members and 105 nodes (including 15 supported nodes). Sizing optimization of this truss is considered. The topology of the truss (i.e., the way that the nodes are