Intelligent selection of concrete bridge construction methods in Egypt

Proceedings of the 2005 ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1751-1764

  Youssef, Mohamed A ^a   Anumba, Chimay J ^b   Thorpe, Tony ^b  

^a Arab Contractors Egypt   (Egypt)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analytic Hierarchy Process; Bridge Construction Methods; Concrete Bridges; Decision Support Systems; Egypt; Multicriteria Decision Making

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MAINTENANCE; PRODUCT DESIGN;

BRIDGE DESIGN; STRUCTURAL CONFIGURATIONS;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

EID: 27144503855     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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