Lay-up Optimization of Laminated Composites Using a Modified Branch and Bound Method

Table 3b: Comparison of the results of GA and MBB for the buckling load maximization problem.

	GA	GA with 4 Plies Rule	MBB	Original BB	MBB With Four Plies Rule
Buckling Load [N]	2.79 x 10⁷	2.78 x 10⁷	2.90 x 10⁷	2.90 x 10⁷	2.89 x 10⁷
CPU Running Time [s]	14.26	14.27	0.30	4.20	0.31
Number of Stacking Sequences Evaluated	4000	4001	88	318	89