Optimum cost design of partially composite steel beams using LRFD

Engineering Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 18-29

  Bhatti, M Asghar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COST EFFECTIVENESS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; NUMERICAL METHODS; SPECIFICATIONS; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

LAGRANGIAN FUNCTION; LOAD AND RESISTANCE FACTOR DESIGN; SOFTWARE PACKAGE MATHEMATICA;

COMPOSITE BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

EID: 0030109327     PISSN: 00138029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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