Mix Proportioning of Aggregates for Concrete by Three Different Approaches

Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 529-537

  Haktanir, Tefaruk ^a,b   Karaboga, Dervis ^a   Akay, Bahriye ^a  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Aggregate ratios; Concrete mix design; Proportioning aggregates

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL BEE COLONIES; CONCRETE MIX DESIGN; MIX PROPORTIONING; MIX PROPORTIONS; SUM OF SQUARES; SUM OF THE ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCES;

ALGORITHMS; CONCRETE AGGREGATES; LINEAR EQUATIONS; SIEVES;

AGGREGATES;

AGGREGATE; ALGORITHM; CONCRETE; DESIGN;

APOIDEA;

EID: 84860895455     PISSN: 08991561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)MT.1943-5533.0000416     Document Type: Article

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