Prediction and multi-objective optimization of high-strength concrete parameters via soft computing approaches

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 3 PART 2, 2009, Pages 6145-6155

  Baykasoǧlu, Adil ^a   Öztaş, Ahmet ^a   Özbay, Erdoǧan ^a  

^a GAZIANTEP UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

High strength concrete; Meta heuristics; Multiple objective optimization; Prediction

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE STRESS; FORECASTING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PROBLEM SOLVING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFT COMPUTING;

HIERARCHICAL METHOD; HIGH STRENGTH CONCRETES; MATHEMATICAL EQUATIONS; META HEURISTICS; MULTIPLE-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; MULTIPLE-OBJECTIVES; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; SOFT COMPUTING APPROACHES;

MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 58349096246     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.07.017     Document Type: Article

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