Application of genetic algorithm for modeling of dense packing of concrete aggregates

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1449-1455

  Sobolev, Konstantin ^a   Amirjanov, Adil ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Milwaukee   (United States)

^b NEAR EAST UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aggregates; Concrete mixture proportioning; Genetic algorithm; Packing density; Particle size distribution; Sequential Packing Algorithm; Simulation model

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE MIXTURE; CONCRETE MIXTURE PROPORTIONING; PACKING ALGORITHMS; PACKING DENSITY; SEQUENTIAL PACKING ALGORITHM;

ASPHALT; CONCRETE AGGREGATES; CONCRETE MIXERS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXTURES; PORTLAND CEMENT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

AGGLOMERATION;

EID: 77951295330     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2010.01.010     Document Type: Article

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