Estimation of current-induced pile groups scour using a rule-based method

Journal of Hydroinformatics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 516-528

  Ghaemi, N ^a   Etemad Shahidi, A ^a,b   Ataie Ashtiani, B ^c  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Model tree; Pile group; Probabilistic design; Scour depth; Soft computing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876376683     PISSN: 14647141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2012.175     Document Type: Article

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