Economic design of retaining wall using particle swarm optimization with passive congregation

Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 5500-5507

  Khajehzadeh, Mohammad ^a   Taha, Mohd Raihan ^a   El Shafie, Ahmed ^a   Eslami, Mahdiyeh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Economic design; Particle swarm optimization; Passive congregation; Retaining wall

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650783847     PISSN: 19918178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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