Optimum seismic design of gravity retaining walls using the Heuristic Big Bang-Big Crunch Algorithm

Civil-Comp Proceedings

Volumn 97, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kaveh, A ^a   Talatahari, S ^b   Sheikholeslami, R ^b  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

Gravity retaining wall; Heuristic Big Bangbig Crunch Algorithm; Optimization; Seismic design

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; OPTIMIZATION; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; SEISMIC DESIGN; SEISMOLOGY; SOFT COMPUTING;

DYNAMIC EARTH PRESSURES; EFFICIENCY AND PERFORMANCE; GRAVITY RETAINING WALLS; INERTIAL FORCES; LATERAL EARTH PRESSURE; MONONOBE-OKABE METHOD; SEISMIC LOADINGS; STATIC EQUILIBRIUM;

RETAINING WALLS;

EID: 84894152630     PISSN: 17593433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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