Ant Colony Optimization for Ultra High Performance Concrete Structures

Designing and Building with UHPFRC

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 601-618

  Flint, Martin ^a   Grünewald, Steffen ^b   Coenders, Jeroen ^b  

^a ARUP   (United Kingdom)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization; Michell truss; Structural topologies; Ultra high performance concrete (UHPC)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886122591     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118557839.ch41     Document Type: Chapter

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