Cost optimization of high strength concretes by soft computing techniques

Computers and Concrete

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 221-237

  Ozbay, Erdogan ^a   Oztas, Ahmet ^b   Baykasoglu, Adil ^c  

^a MUSTAFA KEMAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b EPOKA UNIVERSITY   (Albania)

^c GAZIANTEP UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cost optimization; Genetic algorithm; Genetic programming; High strength concrete

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CONCRETES; COSTS; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GENETIC PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; SOFT COMPUTING; TENSILE STRENGTH; WATER ABSORPTION;

COST OPTIMIZATION; GENETIC PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUE; HIGH STRENGTH CONCRETES; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; SOFTCOMPUTING TECHNIQUES; SPLITTING TENSILE STRENGTH; TAGUCHI DESIGN OF EXPERIMENT; WATER ABSORPTION PROPERTIES;

HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE;

EID: 79958831382     PISSN: 15988198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12989/cac.2010.7.3.221     Document Type: Article

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