Self-organizing back propagation networks for predicting the moment-rotation behavior of bolted connections

Asian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 629-645

  Salajegheh, E ^a   Gholizadeh, S ^a   Pirmoz, A ^a  

^a SHAHID BAHONAR UNIVERSITY OF KERMAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Back propagation; Bolted connection; Finite element; Neural network; Self organizing map

Indexed keywords

EID: 60949101466     PISSN: 15630854     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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