Design of tall bridge piers by ant colony optimization

Engineering Structures

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2320-2329

  Martínez, Francisco J ^a   González Vidosa, Fernando ^a   Hospitaler, Antonio ^a   Alcalá, Julián ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization; Concrete structures; Economic optimization; Structural design; Tall bridge piers

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS AND DESIGN; ANT-COLONY OPTIMIZATION; COMBINATORIAL PROBLEM; DEEP VALLEY; ECONOMIC OPTIMIZATION; EFFICIENT SETS; FORMWORK; HORIZONTAL LOADS; RECTANGULAR SECTION; SIDE WALLS; TALL BRIDGE PIERS; UNIT COST; VERTICAL COLUMNS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRIDGE PIERS; COSTS; REINFORCED CONCRETE; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

BRIDGES;

ALGORITHM; BRIDGE; COLUMN; CONCRETE STRUCTURE; DESIGN; FOUNDATION; OPTIMIZATION; PIER; REINFORCED CONCRETE; SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

EID: 79958044626     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2011.04.005     Document Type: Article

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