Structural design considerations in house builders' model: Optimization approach

Journal of Infrastructure Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 102-110

  Tiwari, Piyush ^a   Parikh, Kirit ^b   Parikh, Jyoti ^b  

^a Housing Devmt Finance Corporation   (India)

^b INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING MATERIALS; CONSTRUCTION; COSTS; FOUNDATIONS; HOUSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL FRAMES;

BUILDING COST FUNCTION; CAPITAL COSTS; COMPROMISE PROGRAMMING; HOUSE BUILDERS MODEL; HOUSING OPTIONS EVALUATION MODEL; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

DESIGN;

EID: 0033198475     PISSN: 10760342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1076-0342(1999)5:3(102)     Document Type: Article

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