Permanent deformation analysis of asphalt mixtures using soft computing techniques

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 6081-6100

  Mirzahosseini, Mohammad Reza ^a   Aghaeifar, Alireza ^b   Alavi, Amir Hossein ^b   Gandomi, Amir Hossein ^b,c   Seyednour, Reza ^d  

^a Sunflower Networking Group   (United States)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c TAFRESH UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND REHABILITATION SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Asphalt pavements; Formulation; Marshall mix design; Multi expression programming; Rutting

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; FORMULATION; MIX DESIGNS; MULTI EXPRESSION PROGRAMMING; RUTTING;

ASPHALT PAVEMENTS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; MIXTURES; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; ROADS AND STREETS; SOFT COMPUTING;

ASPHALT;

EID: 79151485733     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.11.002     Document Type: Article

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