Retraction notice to “ Estimating unconfined compressive strength of cockle shell–cement–sand mixtures using soft computing methodologies” [Engineering Structures 98 (2015) 49 - 58] (S0141029615002230) (10.1016/j.engstruct.2015.03.070));Estimating unconfined compressive strength of cockle shell-cement-sand mixtures using soft computing methodologies

Engineering Structures

Volumn 98, Issue , 2015, Pages 49-58

  Motamedi, Shervin ^a   Shamshirband, Shahaboddin ^a   Hashim, Roslan ^a   Petković, Dalibor ^b   Roy, Chandrabhushan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NI   (Serbia)

Author keywords

ANFIS; Cockle shell; Ground improvement; SVR; Unconfined compressive strength

Indexed keywords

CEMENTS; CORRELATION METHODS; FUZZY INFERENCE; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MIXTURES; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; SHELLFISH; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SOFT COMPUTING;

ADAPTIVE NEURO-FUZZY INFERENCE; ANFIS; COCKLE SHELL; GROUND IMPROVEMENT; PEARSON CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; SOFT COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION (SVR); UNCONFINED COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH;

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; CEMENT; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GROUND IMPROVEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAND; SHELL;

EID: 84930866840     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: 18737323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2018.05.103     Document Type: Erratum

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