New design equations for assessment of load carrying capacity of castellated steel beams: A machine learning approach

Neural Computing and Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 119-131

  Aminian, Pejman ^a   Niroomand, Hadi ^c   Gandomi, Amir Hossein ^b   Alavi, Amir Hossein ^c   Arab Esmaeili, Milad ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Castellated beam; Formulation; Linear genetic programming; Load carrying capacity; Simulated annealing

Indexed keywords

CASTELLATED BEAM; DESIGN EQUATION; FORMULATION; GENERALIZATION CAPABILITY; LINEAR GENETIC PROGRAMMING; MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES; PREDICTION PERFORMANCE; SEARCH ALGORITHMS;

GENETIC PROGRAMMING; LOAD LIMITS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SIMULATED ANNEALING; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84879838436     PISSN: 09410643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00521-012-1138-4     Document Type: Article

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