Prediction of fracture parameters of concrete by Artificial Neural Networks

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 71, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 2143-2159

  Ince, Ragip ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Artificial neural networks; Concrete; Fracture mechanics; Two parameter model

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BACKPROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

CEMENTITIOUS MATERIALS; FRACTURE PARAMETERS;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

CONCRETE; FRACTURE; FRACTURE MECHANICS; NEURAL NETWORK;

EID: 2142827946     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2003.12.004     Document Type: Article

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