Design of reinforced concrete road vaults by heuristic optimization

Advances in Engineering Software

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 151-159

  Carbonell, Alfonso ^a   González Vidosa, Fernando ^a   Yepes, Víctor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Concrete structures; Heuristic optimization; Road vaults; Simulated annealing; Structural design; Threshold acceptance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONCRETE BUILDINGS; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; HEURISTIC METHODS; HIGHWAY PLANNING; REINFORCED CONCRETE; ROADS AND STREETS; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

AUTOMATIC DESIGN; CONCRETE STRUCTURES; COST MINIMIZATION; DISCRETE DESIGN VARIABLES; FREE SPAN; HEURISTIC OPTIMIZATION; HEURISTIC OPTIMIZATION METHOD; LATERAL WALLS; LOCAL SEARCH; MULTISTART; NEIGHBORHOOD SEARCH; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; PENALTY FUNCTION; ROAD VAULTS; THRESHOLD ACCEPTANCE;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

EID: 79953228430     PISSN: 09659978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advengsoft.2011.01.002     Document Type: Article

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