Object-oriented fabrication cost model for the economic appraisal of tubular truss design

Advances in Engineering Software

Volumn 27, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 11-20

  Tizani, W M K ^c   Nethercot, D A ^c   Davies, G ^c   Smith, N J ^a,b   McCarthy, T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Cost modelling; Design; Economic appraisal; Integration; Object oriented; Steel structures

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ESTIMATION; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FABRICATION; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; STEEL STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TRUSSES;

ECONOMIC APPRAISAL; TUBULAR TRUSSES;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030269809     PISSN: 09659978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0965-9978(96)00016-6     Document Type: Article

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