Use of soft computing applications to model pervious concrete pavement condition in cold climates

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 135, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 791-800

  Golroo, Amir ^a   Tighe, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cold regions; Computer applications; Concrete pavements; Fuzzy sets; Markov process; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COLD CLIMATE; COLD REGIONS; COLDER CLIMATE; CONDITION INDEX; EXPECTED VALUES; FUTURE PERFORMANCE; HYPERCUBE; LIMITED DATA; LONG TERM PERFORMANCE; MARKOV CHAIN; NON-HOMOGENEOUS; PAVEMENT CONDITION; PAVEMENT STRUCTURES; PERFORMANCE CURVE; PERFORMANCE MODEL; PERVIOUS CONCRETE; SIMULATION; SIMULATION TECHNIQUE; SINGLE-VALUE; SOFT COMPUTING APPLICATIONS; SOFT COMPUTING METHODS; SOFTCOMPUTING TECHNIQUES; TRANSITION PROBABILITY MATRIX; WEIGHTING FACTORS;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; CONCRETE PAVEMENTS; FUZZY SETS; MARKOV PROCESSES; PROBABILITY; ROADS AND STREETS; SIMULATORS; SOFT COMPUTING; VIDEO CONFERENCING;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

CLIMATE EFFECT; COLD REGION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCRETE STRUCTURE; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; MARKOV CHAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; PAVEMENT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 70350402137     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000052     Document Type: Article

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