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The self-adaptive population Rao algorithms (SAP-Rao) are employed in this study to produce the optimal designs for steel grillage structures. The size variables in the optimization problem consist of the cross-sectional area of the discrete W-shapes of these beams. The LRFD-AISC design code was used to optimize the constrained size of this kind of structure. The solved problem’s primary goal is to...