Constructability analysis: Machine learning approach

Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 8-16

  Skibniewski, Mirosław ^a   Arciszewski, Tomasz ^b   Lueprasert, Kamolwan ^a,c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KING MONGKUT'S UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY NORTH BANGKOK   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; CONCRETE BEAMS AND GIRDERS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; REINFORCED CONCRETE; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL FRAMES;

AUTOMATED CONSTRUCTABILITY KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION SPACE;

CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0030785914     PISSN: 08873801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0887-3801(1997)11:1(8)     Document Type: Article

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