GA in least cost design of stepped spillways

WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 637-643

  Sharifi, Farid ^a   Haddad, Omid Bozorg ^a   Afshar, Abbas ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithm; Optimum design; Stepped spillways

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE DAMS; COSTS; DESIGN; EMBANKMENT DAMS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; OPTIMIZATION; SPILLWAYS;

ROLLER COMPACTED CONCRETE (RCC) DAMS; STEPPED SPILLWAYS;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 21944437711     PISSN: 17900832     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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