Soft Computing Based Multilevel Strategy for Bridge Integrity Monitoring

Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 348-362

  Arangio, S ^a   Bontempi, F ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; BAYESIAN NEURAL NETWORKS; CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT; ENGINEERING ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA PROCESSING; HIERARCHICAL LEVEL; INTEGRITY ASSESSMENT; INTEGRITY MONITORING; LONG-SPAN BRIDGE; MODEL SELECTION; NEURAL NETWORKS MODEL; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SOFT COMPUTING METHODS; STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING; STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DAMAGE DETECTION; DATA PROCESSING; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; INFERENCE ENGINES; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFT COMPUTING; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BRIDGE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DAMAGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77953785481     PISSN: 10939687     EISSN: 14678667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8667.2009.00644.x     Document Type: Article

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