Investigation of complex modulus of base and SBS modified bitumen with artificial neural networks

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 7775-7780

  Kok, Baha Vural ^a   Yilmaz, Mehmet ^a   Sengoz, Burak ^b   Sengur, Abdulkadir ^a   Avci, Engin ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Bitumen; Complex modulus; Styrene butadiene styrene

Indexed keywords

BITUMINOUS MATERIALS; BUTADIENE; CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD; DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS; NEURAL NETWORKS; STYRENE;

BITUMEN; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; COMPLEX MODULUS; DYNAMIC SHEAR RHEOMETER; POLA-RIBIERE CONJUGATE GRADIENTS (CGP); SCALED CONJUGATE GRADIENTS; SIGMOID TRANSFER FUNCTION; STYRENE BUTADIENE STYRENES;

COMPLEX NETWORKS;

EID: 77957838436     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.04.063     Document Type: Article

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