Design of prestressed concrete precast pedestrian bridges by heuristic optimization

Advances in Engineering Software

Volumn 41, Issue 7-8, 2010, Pages 916-922

  Martí, José V ^a   González Vidosa, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Economic optimization; Heuristics; Precast beams; Prestressed concrete structures; Simulated annealing; Structural design

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; CONCRETE BEAMS AND GIRDERS; CONCRETE BLOCKS; CONCRETE SLABS; DEFLECTION (STRUCTURES); DESIGN; FOOTBRIDGES; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; PRECAST CONCRETE; PRESTRESSED CONCRETE; PUBLIC WORKS; REINFORCED CONCRETE; REINFORCEMENT; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; TANKERS (SHIPS);

DESIGN LOAD; DIRECT CALCULATION; DISCRETE DESIGN VARIABLES; ECONOMIC OPTIMIZATION; EVALUATION MODULES; HEURISTIC OPTIMIZATION; LIMIT STATE; MARKOV CHAIN; PASSIVE REINFORCEMENT; PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE; PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC; PRECAST BEAMS; PRESTRESSED CONCRETE STRUCTURES; PRESTRESSED STRUCTURES; REDUCING COEFFICIENT; ROAD BRIDGE; SA ALGORITHM; SPAN LENGTH; STATISTICAL INFORMATION; STRESS RESULTANTS; STRUCTURAL CONCRETES; THRESHOLD ACCEPTING;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

EID: 77955469615     PISSN: 09659978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advengsoft.2010.05.003     Document Type: Article

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