Design of reinforced concrete bridge frames by heuristic optimization

Advances in Engineering Software

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 676-688

  Perea, Cristian ^a   Alcala, Julian ^a   Yepes, Victor ^a   Gonzalez Vidosa, Fernando ^a   Hospitaler, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Concrete structures; Economic optimization; Heuristics; Structural design

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCRETE BRIDGES; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; REINFORCED CONCRETE; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

DESCENT LOCAL SEARCH; ECONOMIC OPTIMIZATION; METAHEURISTIC METHODS; REINFORCED CONCRETE BOX FRAMES;

STRUCTURAL FRAMES;

EID: 41549102382     PISSN: 09659978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advengsoft.2007.07.007     Document Type: Article

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