Minimum cost design of concrete slabs using particle swarm optimization with time varying acceleration coefficients

World Applied Sciences Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2484-2494

  Ahmadi Nedushan, Behrouz ^a   Varaee, Hesam ^a  

^a YAZD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Concrete slab; Optimization; Particle swarm optimization; Penalty function; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864956135     PISSN: 18184952     EISSN: 19916426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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