Prediction of transfer length of prestressing strands using neural networks

ACI Structural Journal

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 162-169

  Kose, Mehmet M ^a  

^a KAHRAMANMARAS SUTCU IMAM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Prestressed concrete; Test; Transfer length

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PRESTRESSED BEAMS AND GIRDERS; PRESTRESSED CONCRETE; STRAIN;

INTERCONNECTED PROCESSING NEURONS; PRESTRESSING STRANDS; TRANSFER LENGTH;

CONCRETE BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

EID: 34247517008     PISSN: 08893241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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