“…The early examples of composites optimization using GA include Callahan & Weeks (1992), LeRiche & Haftka (1993), Hajela & Erisman (1993), Nagendra et al (1993), Ballet al (1993), Giirdal et al (1994), Kogisa et al (1994a) and Kogisa et al (1994b). More recent applications of GA to composites optimization include the works by McMahon et al (1998), Sivakumar et al (1998), Todoroki & Haftka (1996), Liu et al (1998), , Todoroki & Sasai (1999) and Sasai (1999), Autio (2000), Autio (2001) and Soremekun et al (2001). The details of the technique can be found in books such as Goldberg (1989) (1989), Back (1996) ), Blachut & Eschenauer (2001 and its applications to composites in Giirdal et al (1999).…”