A virtual laboratory for stability tests of rubble-mound breakwaters

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 11-12, 2008, Pages 1113-1120

  Iglesias, G ^a   Rabunal J ^b   Losada, M A ^c   Pachon H ^b   Castro, A ^b   Carballo, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Armor damage; Artificial intelligence; Artificial neural networks; Breakwater; Coastal engineering; Coastal structures

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BACKPROPAGATION; BREAKWATERS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; ELECTRIC FAULT LOCATION; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; LIGHTNING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SYSTEM STABILITY; TESTING; VEGETATION;

ACTIVATION FUNCTION (AF); APPLIED (CO); ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK (ANNS); ELSEVIER (CO); EXPERIMENTAL CAMPAIGN; IN ORDER; PHYSICAL MODEL (PM); PHYSICAL MODEL TESTING; RUBBLE MOUND BREAKWATERS; STABILITY TESTING; VIRTUAL LABORATORY (VL); WAVE ACTIONS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BREAKWATER; COASTAL ENGINEERING; MODEL TEST; WAVE ACTION;

EID: 46749118744     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2008.04.014     Document Type: Article

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